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Grace Talusan is a Filipino American writer. Her 2019 memoir, The Body Papers, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection.[1][2] Her short story "The Book of Life and Death" was the Boston Book Festival's One City One Story selection in 2020.

Talusan was born in the Philippines, and moved to Massachusetts when she was 2.[3] She graduated from Tufts University and holds an MFA from UC Irvine.[4] She is currently the Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Meet Grace Talusan, Winner of the 2017 Prize for New Immigrant Writing". Restless Books. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  2. ^ "11 New Books We Recommend This Week". The New York Times. 2019-04-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  3. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2019-04-17). "Documenting Undocumented Lives in 'The Body Papers'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  4. ^ "Grace Talusan". Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. 2018-08-03. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
  5. ^ "Grace Talusan". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-25.


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