Contingent

by Grace Talusan

This piece is part of our Winter 2023 print issue, available for purchase here.

 

 

 

 

 

Grace Talusan

Grace Talusan is the author of The Body Papers, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. Her writing has been supported by the NEA, the Fulbright, US Artists, the Brother Thomas Fund, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and residencies at the Pink Door, MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Hedgebrook. She teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.

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