Grace Talusan

Rabb Graduate Center
Degrees
University of California, Irvine, M.F.A.Tufts University, B.A.
Expertise
creative nonfiction, fictionProfile
Grace Talusan is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. Her memoir, The Body Papers is a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, the winner in nonfiction for the Massachusetts Book Awards, and the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Her short story, "The Book of Life and Death," was chosen for the 2020 Boston Book Festival's One City One Story program and was translated into several languages, including Tagalog. She has published essays in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Boston Magazine, Boston Globe, The Rumpus, and the New York Times with recent essays in two pandemic-related anthologies, And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic edited by Ilan Stavans and Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 edited by Jennifer Haupt. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. WebpageCourses Taught
ENG | 19a | Introduction to Creative Writing Workshop |
ENG | 19b | The Autobiographical Imagination: Creative Nonfiction Workshop |
ENG | 109b | Fiction Workshop: Short Fiction |
ENG | 119a | Fiction Workshop |
ENG | 129a | Creative Nonfiction Workshop |
Awards and Honors
Winner, Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction, Massachusetts Center for the Book (2020)
Winner, One City One Story program, Boston Book Festival (2020)
Scholarship
Talusan, Grace. "1984." VIDA Review 3 (2020): <https://www.vidaweb.org/vida-review-issue3-talusan/>.
Talusan, Grace. "River of Grief." Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. Ed. Jennifer Haupt. Central Avenue Publishing, 2020
Talusan, Grace. "The Arm of Mercy." And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ed. Ilan Stavans. Restless Books, 2020
Talusan, Grace. "Three Flash Essays on the Border." Anomaly 31 (2020): <http://anmly.org/ap31/citizenship-discontents-31/grace-talusan/>.
Talusan, Grace. The Body Papers. paperback ed. Brooklyn, NY: Restless Books, 2020.