![]() ![]() Each book, and every book in between these 2, has been a leaving and a returning: to find and lose and find the self again. Septem~ My newest book, Maps for Migrants and Ghosts, is scheduled for release from Southern Illinois University Press. When Cordillera Tales came out, I wasn't even sure what "page proofs" or "royalty" meant. To my great shock my entry won first prize. ![]() Seven years prior, even younger (and a new mother to boot) I'd entered poems for the first time to the Palanca Literary Awards in the Philippines. June 1990 ~ My first published book, Cordillera Tales, Retold and Illusrated (in the picture above) I was all of 28, a very young instructor at the University of the Philippines in Baguio. ![]()
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