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. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her memoir, The Body Papers, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction. 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

2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist for The Body Papers (2020)

“Must Read” Longlist 20th Anniversary Massachusetts Book Awards (2020)

Scholarship

Talusan, Grace. The Body Papers. paperback ed. Brooklyn, NY: Restless Books, 2020.