Chicago Book Launch Weekend for Caulbearer!

Friends — I hope to see some of you at these 2 poetry events as part of the
Chicago Reading and Launch of CAULBEARER (Black Lawrence Press / Immigrant Writing Prize) 

Friday 11 APR, 7:00 PM 
Women & Children First Bookstore
(Free in-person event, but please register. Masks required.)

Saturday 12 APR, 11:00 AM 
Chicago Authors Room, Harold Washington Library Center
Co-sponsored by the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago

Booksigning to follow each event.

My excellent discussant at these programs is M.G. Bertulfo, who lives and writes at the intersection of nature, culture, and spirituality. She has written professionally for television and children’s education in such venues as CBS, Pearson Education Asia, and Schlessinger and for conservation magazines such as Sierra and Chicago Wilderness. Her award-winning fiction has appeared in Growing Up Filipino II, Our Own Voice, and The Oak Parker and her essays have appeared in various anthologies. She is a co-owner of Calypso Moon Studio, a working arts studio, in the Oak Park Arts District. Mary Grace is a member of the international N.V.M. and Narita Gonzalez Writers Group, the Historical Novel Society, New Moon Mondays, and the Acorn novelist workshop. She has served on the board of the Oak Park Arts District and was a local network rep for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. In 2017, she founded Banyan, an Asian American Writers Collective whose mission is to promote the visibility of Asian American Writers in Chicagoland and to uplift community spirit through the arts.