FilAm Book Festival in San Francisco

Booksigning at the Second FILBOOKFEST in San Francisco.

October 19-20, 2013
At the Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room
Author Book Signing throughout the day

Venue: San Francisco Main Library
Civic Civic Center, San Francisco, CA

Please support our authors with your presence. Many of them have written award-winning books. Come, meet and greet them and have a book autographed for your private library or for donation to your local library or school. If you will be unable to attend, we accept orders by phone for autographed copies. Tel 310-514-9139.

BOOKSIGNING SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013

TABLE A

11:00am – 12:00noon

LUISA IGLORIA

The Saints of Streets: Poems. 2013.
Juan Luna’s Revolver: Poems. 2009. Winner, 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize.
Trill & Mordent: Poems. 2005.
Not Home, But Here: Writings from the Filipino Diaspora. Editor. 2003
Blood Sacrifice: Poems. 1998 National Book Award for Poetry, Philippines.
Encanto: Poems. 1994 National Book Award for Poetry, Philippines.
Cartography: Poems. 1993 National Book Award for Poetry, Philippines.

ALBERT J. MORTIZ

Discover the Philippines Cookbook. 2012 reprint.
Descubre La Cocina Haute de Las Filipinas. 2012 reprint.
Beyond San Andreas: A Novel. 2010

MELINDA LUISA DE JESUS

Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory. 2005. For reprint 2014.

12:00noon – 1:00pm

LENY MENDOZA STROBEL

Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory. Co-editor. 2013
Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous. Editor. Reprint. 2013
A Book of Her Own: words and Images to Honor the Babaylan. 2005
Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans. 2005

GIOVANNI ORTEGA

Leaves from the Silverlake Barrio. 2013. FPAC Pahayag’s 2013 Most Voted Writer. PEN Center USA’s Three Pinoy Writers.
ALLOS, The Story of Carlos Bulosan,
a one-act play commissioned by East West Players. 2010.
Produced by EW Player, 2011; Mezclao, 2012; CIRCA Pintig, 2012.

RICHIE QUIRINO

Pinoy Jazz Traditions. 2004.
Mabuhay Jazz: Jazz in Postwar Philippines. 2008
Contemporary Jazz in the Philippines, 1970 to the Year 2010. 2011.

1:00pm – 2:00pm

M. EVELINA GALANG

Angel de la Luna and the Fifth Glorious Mystery. 2013
Her Wild American Self: Short Stories. 1996
One Tribe. 2006. Winner, AAP Award for the Novel.
Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, Editor. 2003.

BENJAMIN PIMENTEL

How My Sons Lost Their Tagalog. 2013
Pareng Barack: Filipinos in Obama’s America. 2008
Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street.
Winner, 2007 National Book Award for Fiction, Philippines.
U.G. An Underground Tale.
The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation. 2006

MARIVI SOLIVEN

The Mango Bride. Winner, Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel. 2011.
Spooky Mo: Horror Stories. 2008.
Speak Up, Woman! Editor. 2004.
Suddenly Stateside. 2002
Philippine Fright. Stories for Young Readers. 1996

2:00pm – 3:00pm

LESLIE RYAN

I Am Flippish, a juvenile book. 2012

CELINE PARRENAS SHIMIZU

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. 2013
Straitjacket Sexualities:
Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies. 2012
Hypersexuality of Race:
Performing Asian/AmericanWomen on Screen and Scene. 2007.
Winner, 2009 Best Book Prize in Cultural Studies, Assoc. for Asian American Studies.

MELINDA L. DE JESUS

Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory. 2005. For reprint 2014.

3:00pm – 4:00pm

DAWN BOHULANO MABALON

Little Manila is In the Heart:
The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. 2013
Filipinos in Stockton. Co-editor. 2008

ANGELA NARCISO TORRES

Blood Orange: Poems. 2013.
Grand Prize Winner for Poetry. Willow Books Literature Awards.

BENJAMIN PIMENTEL

How My Sons Lost Their Tagalog. 2013
Pareng Barack: Filipinos in Obama’s America. 2008
Mga Gerilya sa Powell Street.
Winner, 2007 National Book Award for Fiction, Philippines.
U.G. An Underground Tale.
The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation. 2006

4:00pm – 5:00pm

MARIANNE VILLANUEVA

The Lost Language: Stories. 2009
Mayor of the Roces: Stories. 2005
Going Home to a Landscape. 2003
Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila. 1991. Nominee, Manila Circle Critics Award.

CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD

Magnificat: Mama Mary’s Pilgrim Sites . Editor. 2012
Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose. 2012
Vigan and other Stories. 2011
Angelica’s Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel.Co-author. 2010.
Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. 2010
Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters. Co-editor. 2009
Ala Carte Food and Fiction. Co-editor. 2007
Behind the Walls:Life of Convent Girls.Co-editor. 2005.
Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults. 2003
Cecilia’s Diary: 1962-1969. Memoir. 2003
Magdalena: A Novel. 2002
Journey of 100 Years:
Reflections on the Centennial of Philippine Independence. Co-editor. 1999.
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept: A Novel. 1999 reprint.
Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America. 1998
Acapulco at Sunset and other Stories. 1995
Fiction by Filipinos in America . 1993
Philippine Woman in America. 1991.
Woman with Horns and Other Stories. 1987. Limited copies available.

JON PINEDA

Apology: A Novel. Winner, Milkweed National Fiction Prize. 2013
Sleep in Me: A Memoir. Winner, 2010 Holiday Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program Selection and named one of the top memoirs of 2010 by Library Journal.
The Translator’s Diary: Poems. Winner, 2007 Green Rose Prize for Poetry from New Issues Press
Birthmark: Poems. First place winner in the 2003 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards

TABLE B

4:00pm – 5:00pm

LYSLEY TENORIO

Monstress: Stories. 2012

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2013

TABLE A

12:00noon – 1:00pm

LORENZO PARAN

Pinoy in America: The Stateside Life in the Time of Barack Obama, Facebook and Pacquiao-mania. Essays. 2011.

E. R. ESCOBER

The Facebook Nostradamus: A Novel. 2011
Givenchy Code: An Homage and a Parody. 2005
Not My Bowl for Rice: A Novel. 2002

1:00pm – 2:00pm

LESLIE RYAN

I am Flippish, a juvenile book. 2012

PENELOPE FLORES

The Philippine Jeepney: A Filipino Family Metaphor. 2008
Good Bye, Vientiane: Untold Stories of Filipinos in Laos. Editor.2005.

MARIVI SOLIVEN

The Mango Bride. Winner, Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel. 2011.
Spooky Mo: Horror Stories. 2008.
Speak Up, Woman! Editor. 2004.
Suddenly Stateside. 2002
Philippine Fright. Stories for Young Readers. 1996

2:00pm – 3:00pm

M. EVELINA GALANG

Angel de la Luna and the Fifth Glorious Mystery. 2013
Her Wild American Self: Short Stories. 1996
One Tribe. 2006. Winner, AAP Award for the Novel.
Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, Editor.

MARIANNE VILLANUEVA

The Lost Language: Stories. 2009
Mayor of the Roces: Stories. 2005
Going Home to a Landscape. 2003
Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila. 1991. Nominee, Manila Circle Critics Award.

NIEVES CATAHAN VILLAMIN

Bittermelons and Mimosas: A Philippine Memoir

3:00pm – 4:00pm

MARVIN GAPULTOS

The Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey-from Food Blog. To Food Truck. And Beyond. 2013.

CLAUDE TAYAG

Kulinarya: A Guidebook to Philippine Cuisine. Co-author. 2008.
Food Tour: A Culinary Journal. 2007.
Linamnam: Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines. Co-author. 2012

ALBERT J. MORTIZ

Discover the Philippines Cookbook. 2012 reprint.
Descubre La Cocina Haute de Las Filipinas. 2012 reprint.
Beyond San Andreas: A Novel. 2010

TABLE B

1:00pm – 2:00pm

ARACELI RESUS

The Philippine Jeepney: A Filipino Family Metaphor. Co-author. 2008

2:00pm – 3:00pm

GIOVANNI ORTEGA

Leaves from the Silverlake Barrio. 2013. FPAC Pahayag’s 2013 Most Voted Writer. PEN Center USA’s Three Pinoy Writers.
ALLOS, The Story of Carlos Bulosan,
a one-act play commissioned by East West Players. 2010.
Produced by EW Player, 2011; Mezclao, 2012; CIRCA Pintig, 2012.

NICK DE OCAMPO

Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema. 2011
Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines. 2007.
Lost Films of Asia. 2006

3:00pm – 4:00pm

CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD

Magnificat: Mama Mary’s Pilgrim Sites . Editor. 2012
Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose. 2012
Vigan and other Stories. 2011
Angelica’s Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel.Co-author. 2010.
Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. 2010
Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters. Co-editor. 2009
Ala Carte Food and Fiction. Co-editor. 2007
Behind the Walls:Life of Convent Girls.Co-editor. 2005.
Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults. 2003
Cecilia’s Diary: 1962-1969. Memoir. 2003
Magdalena: A Novel. 2002
Journey of 100 Years:
Reflections on the Centennial of Philippine Independence. Co-editor. 1999.
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept: A Novel. 1999 reprint.
Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America. 1998
Acapulco at Sunset and other Stories. 1995
Fiction by Filipinos in America . 1993
Philippine Woman in America. 1991.
Woman with Horns and Other Stories. 1987. Limited copies available.

2013 Featured Authors and Their Books

     ALMIRA ASTUDILLO GILES

Almira Astudillo Giles is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction whose writing focuses mostly on her Filipino heritage. Born and raised in the Philippines, she came to the U.S. to study, completing a PhD and two masters degrees from Michigan State University. Her picture book, Willie Wins, is the most widely circulated Filipino American book for children in the U.S. She has also published poetry, essays, short stories, and plays. She has been invited to speak at many venues around the country, including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.Last December, she was conferred the Pamana ng Pilipino Presidential Award for Individuals by Pres. Benigno Aquino III at a Commission on Filipinos Overseas ceremony in Malacañang Palace.The Fire Beneath: Tales of Gold is her first novel which was inspired by the true discovery of the largest collection of gold treasures in the Philippines. In 1981, a bulldozer operator found gold artifacts while working in an irrigation project in Surigao. Most of these treasures are now on permanent display in the Ayala Museum in the Philippines.

Also written by Almira Astudillo Giles

Willie Wins Illustrated in full colors by Fil Am artist Carl Angel Only softcover editions are available now. The first book published by Almira Gilles. 2001 A tender but vital tribute to a father’s love and a son’s faith. Willie, a young Filipino boy, must bring a bank to class for saving the play money his teacher will be handing out for extra work. His father gives him an alkansiya—coconut shell bank from the Philippines—but Willie worries that Stan, the class bad boy, will give him grief about it. Can you guess how this story ends? BTW, this is the most popular Filiipino American book for kids.

     MARVIN GAPULTOS

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Marvin Gapultos is a first-generation Filipino American and author of the celebrated food blog Burnt Lumpia whose pioneering efforts and singular passion in promoting the food of the Philippines has made him one of the country’s leading voices on Filipino cuisine.With his unique approach to Filipino cooking, Marvin gained both loyal following and critical acclaim from a worldwide audience, which made him the first Filipino American food blogger to truly champion and showcase Filipino cuisine. He opened The Manila Machine–Los Angeles’ first gourmet Filipino food truck, completely owned and operated by food bloggers.His first cookbook, The Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey, provides easy-to-follow, tried and true recipes that serve as a guide to the pleasures of Filipino cooking. The nearly 100 recipes in these pages pave a culinary road trip that transports home cooks to the roadside food stalls, bars and home kitchens of the Philippines, to the hungry streets of L.A., and even into the sage kitchen’s of Marvin’s own grandmother, mother and aunties.

     CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, is a multi-awarded author and editor who works as a free lance writer and teaches creative writing at the Writers Program at UCLA-Extension. Some of her noted works include Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose, Magdalena, Vigan and Other Stories and the internationally acclaimed novel When the Rainbow Goddess Wept among others. She also edited five books and co-edited six books among which are Growing Up Filipino I and II, Ala Carte: Food and Fiction, Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls, Cecilia’s Diary,1962-1969 and Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters. Cecilia has also written a novel with four other women entitled, Angelica’s Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel.Her latest book, Magnificat: Mama Mary’s Pilgrim Sites is a collection of essays which are profoundly Marian and beautifully written as personal experiences by 24 contributors. It features fifteen Marian pilgrim sites around the world and nine sites in the Philippines. “This book assembles a tableau of witnesses to how a visit with Mary can turn into a life-changing introduction to her Son” – Dionisio M. Miranda, SVD., President, University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines. Leopoldo C. Jaucian, SVD., DD., Bishop of Bangued, Philippines, writes “To our fellow devotees and would-be devotees of the Blessed Virgin Mary, you will surely fall in love with Magnificat: Mama Mary’s Pilgrim Sites and love our Blessed Mother even more.” This inspirational book carries the Imprimatur of His Eminence Luis Antonio G. Tagle, D.D., Archbishop of Manila.

Other Titles Written by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

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     GIOVANNI ORTEGA

Giovanni Ortega has been working around the country as a playright, director and performer for the last ten years. Most recently, he originated the role of Tumao in Aswang, an opera by acclaimed composer Florante Aguilar, in San Francisco. He also recently choreographed the musical adaptation of Velina Hasu Houston’s award winning play Tea for East West Players in Los Angeles while, simultaneously, his play Allos, the story of Carlos Bulosan was produced in Chicago by CIRCA Pintig Theater Company.His book Leaves from the Silverlake Barrio is a collection of short fiction and poetry that deals with the human existence seen from the viewpoints of different characters who come from varying environments, that share a certain sense of grief, isolation and hope. Based on the experience of losing a mentor, Leaves is what came out of a year long grieving process for the author who used writing as a means to immortalize someone who passed away. He says: “This book was initially a concept to somehow immortalize one of my mentors, Peter Corpus. He embodied a larger than life view of how to live, and was always willing to take time to teach others what he has learned. He remains the hardest working person I have encountered but most of all, the most caring as well.”

     SUMI SEVILLA HARU

From humble beginnings in her Colorado home, Sumi Sevilla Haru has worked her way to become a world traveled actor, union leader, and civil rights activist. Some of her titles have included Screen Actors Guild officer; radio programmer; television producer/host at KTLA-TV; writer, creator, and executive producer for Iron Lotus Productions.Having led a varied and interesting life, Sumi sums it all in her memoir, Iron Lotus. In this debut book, she shares her trials and triumphs as she paved the road for women of color to enjoy success of their own making in the entertainment industry and corporate world.Honest, open, and frank, Sumi’s memoirs will educate as much as entertain, with her wit and wisdom showing on every page.

     JANET STICKMON

Janet C. Mendoza Stickmon, whose work has influenced thousands of adults and adolescents for the last seventeen years, is a teacher, writer, and performer. Stickmon has taught ethnic studies, social justice, history of Christianity, spoken word and algebra at Salesian High School in Richmond, CA for several years. She is currently a professor of Humanities at Napa Valley College and is the founder and facilitator of Broken Shackle Developmental Training—a program that promotes the use of healing techniques to help reduce the effects of internalized racism. Her memoir, Crushing Soft Rubies, has been used as a course textbook at U.C. Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Santa Rosa Junior College and Gavilan College. She is also a spoken word artist who has performed at several venues across the country. Through her literature and performances, she explores issues of love, motherhood, resilience, ancestral connection, and joy.Her latest book, Midnight Peaches, Two O’Clock Patience is a collection of essays, poems, and short stories. It invites the reader to bear witness to how women touch others and the ways they want to be touched. Janet reminds us that patience and a listening ear can inspire a woman’s creative power to overflow without warning.

Also written by Janet Stickmon

Crushing Soft Rubies: A Memoir-this title is being revised and new edition is still not available momentarily.

     CRISELDA YABES

Criselda Yabes is a seasoned journalist and award-winning writer. She graduated from the University of the Philippines and has worked as an international correspondent covering political events that saw insurgencies, rebellion, and coup d’etats in the Philippines as well as war and crises across the globe. While she was born in Quezon City, she spent her growing up years in Zamboanga and thus developed an affection for the Muslim Region which is a favorite subject for her literary pieces.Her most recent book on literary journalism regarding military affairs in Muslim Mindanao Region, Peace Warriors, won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 2012. It gives an account of the armed forces in the Muslim Mindanao region where the struggle to find peace is taking place to end one of the country’s longest-running insurgencies. This was written ten years after her first book, the well-acclaimed, The Boys from the Barracks which chronicles events of several attempted coups soon after Ferdinand Marcos was deposed as dictator of the Philippines.In 2008, two of her books won the University of the Philippines Centennial Literary Prize: for creative non-fiction, Sarena’s Story: The Loss of a Kingdom, a story on the fall of the Sulu Sultanate and for fiction, Below the Crying Mountain, a weave of love stories with a backdrop on the Muslim secessionist uprising in the 1970s. The latter was long-listed for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize.She also wrote Our Rights, Our Victories: Landmark Cases in the Supreme Court, in collaboration with Marites Danguilan Vitug.Her other books that are now out of print are Jalan Jalan, a travel narrative through the backwaters of Mindanao province and Borneo that were under an economic reconstruction plan known as East ASEAN Growth Area; Letters from Pala’wan, which follows an anthropological team searching for ancient pre-Hispanic script on an island known as the Philippines’ last frontier and a former Spanish penal colony and A Journey of Scars, a personal reflection on life and love during her European sojourn, which was short-listed by the Philippine National Book Award.She currently works as a free lance writer and is a Diana Bennett Fellow, at the Black Mountain Institute of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for 2012-2013.

Also written by Criselda Yabes

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     STEVEN A. YAGYAGAN

Steven A. Yagyagan, born and reared on a sugar plantation in Waialua, Hawai’i, has been working on his books for the last 20 years. His first book, Haikus of Life: Live, Love and Laugh With Passion is the result of his reacquaintance with the sights, sounds, smells, texture and in sometimes tastes of Nature’s Beauty when he started running again after a three-year hiatus. He started to form haiku poems which flowed naturally in his mind and heart.The Divine Mercy: An Amazing Journey was inspired by events in the life of Antonio Campanano, Jr. who has shared his journal which narrates how his Divine Mercy experience solidified his faith in God and tells how God teaches him about Joy, Peace, Love, Forgiveness and Trust by experiencing the highs and lows of life. A deeply spiritual person, he also enjoys writing music, playing music with his friends in their band, Da 2nd Wind Band. He relishes living every moment of his life to the fullest with his wife, children and closest friends. Otherwise, he is a very private person. It is in his private moments that he collects his thoughts of the day and expresses them in poetry and in song.