Grace Talusan will be in conversation with fellow author Janelle Gray at Interabang Books about Grace’s extraordinary memoir The Body Papers. Winner of our Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, The Body Papers is out in paperback on March 3.
When: Saturday, March 7 at 6 pm
Where: Interabang Books (Dallas, TX)
Grace Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine, she is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Talusan teaches at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts and is a longtime member of GrubStreet. She is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. The Body Papers, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, is her first book.
Janelle Gray was born and raised in Dallas, Texas into an artistic and musical family. After seven years of working in corporate sales, Janelle quit her job to pursue writing full time. She moved to Colombia where she honed her fiction writing skills and taught English as a second language for three years. Her first novel, Echoes of the Struggle, is required text for select high schools in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She currently resides in Texas where she continues to write as well as teach and tutor both English and Spanish. Janelle holds a bachelor's degree in Communication and Spanish.
By Grace Talusan
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction
Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse.
Paperback ISBN: 9781632060242 • Mar 3, 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632061836 • Apr 9, 2019