Grace Talusan

Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence

Departments/Programs

English

Degrees

University of California, Irvine, M.F.A.
Tufts University, B.A.

Expertise

creative nonfiction, fiction

Profile

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. Webpage

Courses 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.