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Boston Tell-All Welcomes Grace Talusan, Author of The Body Papers: A Memoir

  • Middlesex Lounge 315 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA, 02139 United States (map)
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The Boston Tell-All series, which hosts award-winning authors, best selling authors, and emerging stars to share their first-person stories, welcomes Grace Talusan to the stage to tell her story from her Restless New Immigrant Writing Prize Winning novel The Body Papers on April 11th.

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 the Essay Incubator at GrubStreet and at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts. She is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University for 2019–2021. The Body Papers, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, is her first book.

Where: Middlesex Lounge

When: April 11, 2019, 7:30 PM, Doors at 7:00 PM