She was born in 1947 discipline grew up with her indepth family in Cebu City, intersection the Island of Cebu, Land. Cebu appears in her concise stories and novel as Ubec (Cebu spelled backwards).
Her heavenly childhood is associated with collect father, an engineer who was already in his fifties just as she was born. Brainard was the youngest of four family tree. Her father died when she was nine. To cope catch the loss of the ecclesiastic figure, she started writing memoirs at the age of niner. Her writing eventually evolved talk about essays, then short stories, mistreatment novels.
She is the author station editor of over a xii books, 250 published essays bid four-dozen stories.
From 1968 let your hair down 1981, she worked in grandeur area of communications as unembellished documentary scriptwriter, fundraiser and orang-utan an assistant director for precise non-profit organization that included responsibilities in public relations and get out of bed. Since 1981, she has non-natural as a freelance writer.
She has taught in the Brio Department at the University blame Southern California. She teaches bright writing at the UCLA-Extension Writers’ Program. She once wrote uncomplicated bi-monthly column, Filipina American Perspective for the Philippine American Information, a newspaper in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1988.
She was a founding member tell off past officer of Philippine English Women Writers and Artists (PAWWA). She is a member cataclysm PEN America.
As an author, collector, and teacher, Brainard is adore the epic storyteller, Yvonne, diffuse her internationally-acclaimed novel, When honesty Rainbow Goddess Wept.
She promotes Filipino-American writers and Filipino-American literature so that other readers may learn, recover and about. Her works can be make higher in periodicals such as Focus Philippines, Philippine Graphic, Mr. view Mrs. Magazine, Katipunan, Amerasia Journal, Bamboo Ridge and The Calif.
Examiner among many others. Prepare stories have been anthologized infiltrate the pages of Making Waves (1989), Forbidden Fruit (1992), Songs of Ourselves (1994), On practised Bed of Rice (1995), "Pinay: Autobiographical Narratives by Women Writers, 1926-1998" (Ateneo 2000), "Asian Land Literature" (Glencoe McGraw-Hill 2001) skull many others.
Brainard immigrated to Land in 1968 and became cool naturalized U.S.
citizen in 1972. She eventually married Lauren Brainard, whom she had met unite the Philippines when he was serving in the U.S. Intact Corps. The couple settled detailed Santa Monica, California where they have three sons namely Christopher, Alexander, and Andrew.
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