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Immigrant Prize Winner Grace Talusan at Philippine Expressions Bookshop

  • Philippine Expression Bookshop 479 West 6th St. #105 San Pedro, California, 90731 United States (map)

Join Grace Talusan at the Philippine Expressions Bookshop as she celebrates the launch of her Restless New Immigrant Writing Prize Winning memoir The Body Papers on June 29th at 3:00 p.m.

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: Philippine Expressions Bookshop

When: June 29th at 3:00 p.m.