Grace Talusan, author of "The Body Papers"


 Humanities Center     Apr 25 2019 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Humanities Gateway 1010

Grace Talusan

UCI MFA alum Grace Talusan reads from her award-winning memoir, The Body Papers.

Grace Talusan was named the winner of the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her book The Body Papers. In their citation, the judges called The Body Papers "a remarkable memoir" that trains "an unflinching eye on the most delicate and fraught contours of her own life as an immigrant and survivor of trauma and illness.... The Body Papers may be Grace Talusan’s debut, but it is the considered, artful work of one who has been processing these experiences with the diligence and courage of a true writer." Talusan is a Fulbright Fellow and a graduate of the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. She teaches creative writing at Tufts University.

Sponsored by Illuminations: The Chancellor's Art and Culture Initiative and the UCI Programs in Writing.