Grace Talusan

Grace Talusan is a Filipino American writer. Her 2019 memoir, ''The Body Papers'', won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction and was a ''New York Times'' Editors' Choice selection. Her short story, "The Book of Life and Death," was the Boston Book Festival's One City One Story selection in 2020.

Talusan was born in the Philippines, and during the 1970s, her parents came to Chicago from Manila, as her father, Totoy, finished his medical studies on a student visa, and then they settled in Boston, Massachusetts, when she was 2. Upon expiration of her father's student visa, the family, including Grace and her two brothers, all U.S.-born, were undocumented. She graduated from Tufts University and holds an MFA from UC Irvine. She was the Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University and is currently a lecturer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University. Provided by Wikipedia