Grace Talusan
Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence

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. 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. 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
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.