Grace Talusan’s is the author of The Body Papers, winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. She was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is the Fannie Hurst writer-in-residence at Brandeis University. www.gracetalusan.com