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Grace Talusan’s Journalist Portfolio

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The World Was Calling | Tufts Magazine

The World Was Calling | Tufts Magazine

The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King was an unthinkable tragedy that prompted a critical national…

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Write What You Know

Write What You Know

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What's a Writer For: Grace Talusan | GrubStreet

What's a Writer For: Grace Talusan | GrubStreet

In the lead up to this year's Muse conference, we asked authors, agents, and editors presenting at the confer…

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Grace Talusan's 6 New Books From Diverse Voices

Grace Talusan's 6 New Books From Diverse Voices

Though I read voraciously as a child, I rarely saw myself reflected in the books I read-except for the Asian …

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Knee Walk - Image Journal

Knee Walk - Image Journal

By the time we got to the Sorrowful Mysteries, I had fallen asleep, lulled by the warm bus and the whispers o…

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How to Cross the Street in Manila

How to Cross the Street in Manila

Returning to the Philippines, the country of my birth, I finally looked like everyone else—which was not the …

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The Body Papers By Grace Talusan

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By Grace Talusan
| Listen & Be Heard
The Listen & Be Heard Hour s4e16 May 21st, 2026 Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, the confusion is worse: her grandfather’s nightly visits to her room leave her hurt and terrified, and she learns to build a protective wall of silence that maps onto the larger silence practiced by her Catholic Filipino family.
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"Even before I had readers, I felt less alone from the act of writing itself. I also felt an ethical responsibility to tell the truth."

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By Sherisa de Groot, Grace Talusan
| Literary Liberation (Newsletter)
If someone forwarded this to you, subscribe here! If you want to get in touch, email here! Read more from our Ten Questions series. Grace Talusan(she/her) 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, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.
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The Haunted

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By Grace Talusan
| theseventhwave.org
The summer before I published my first — and so far, only — book, my husband Alonso and I finally saved enough money and time to spend a week in Paris. It was 2018, and we were celebrating our seventh wedding anniversary, which felt significant. I had not returned since the summer before graduate school, just weeks before I met Alonso. A turning point, decades ago. And as we dreamed of our future, Alonso and I imagined traveling to Paris together someday.
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Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I had a horoscope column for my high school newspaper.