Eileen R. Tabios Appears...: 2025

ONGOING EVENT:

Hay(na)ku Exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library
By the Filipino American Center, Third Floor
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
This is a reprise of the Hay(na)ku Exhibit Celebrating its 15th Year Anniversary; More information HERE.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

"Voices from the Philippines: Stories that Transcend Borders"

A Celebration of Philippine National Literature Month in Singapore

Sponsors: Penguin Random House SEA, Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Singapore and the National Library Board, Singapore

Date: April 10, 2025 (Thursday)

Time: 6-7:30 p.m.

Venue: Programme Room 1, Central Public Library, Singapore

Poet Eric Tinsay Valles will represent The Balikbayan Artist with a reading from the novel.

Eric Tinsay Valles

Sonoma County Book Launch for THE BALIKBAYAN ARTIST

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Los Angeles Book Launch for The Balikbayan Artist

Sponsor: Carlos Bulosan Book Club, a project of the Friends of Echo Park Branch Library

Date: July 19, 2025 (Saturday)

Time: 2:30 p.m. PST

Location: Echo Park Branch Library, 1410 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Phone: (213) 250-7808

A combined in-person & Zoom event

Guest Discussants: Rachielle Sheffler & Michael Caylo-Baradi

Moderation/Q&A: Jaime Geaga

Book Information

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COVERAGE OF PRIOR EVENTS available as of 2024 HERE; 2022-2023 HERE; for 2021 HERE; and for Pre-2021 HERE!

TO MARK A MOMENT IN HISTORY, EVENTS CANCELLED BY COVID-19 HERE.

Eileen Tabios @ Tenderloin Museum (Kelsey Street Press Reading)
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Book Launch for The Balikbayan Artist!

"The Balikbayan Artist And Other Chismis in the Filipino Diaspora"

Peninsula Book Collaborative

Westlake Shopping Center

441 Westlake Center, Daly City

EVENT LINK

Sponsors: Peninsula Book Collaborative and PAWA

March 15, 2005

6 - 7:30 p.m. PST

Conversants:

Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released over 70 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in 11 countries. She is the author of two novels, The Balikbayan Artist (Penguin Random House SEA, 2024) and DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (AC Books, New York, 2021), as well as an autobiography, The Inventor (Marsh Hawk Press, 2023). She has also edited, co-edited or conceptualized 15 anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays which has involved hundreds of writers and artists around the world..

Edwin Lozada is an author and translator, and the editor of Field of Mirrors: An Anthology of Philippine American Writers (2008). An educator in the California public school system for over 30 years, he is also president of Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA) Inc., Executive Director of the Filipino American International Book Festival, and Co-Founder of The Hinabi Project, a Bay Area nonprofit which seeks to educate and foster appreciation for indigenous Philippine textiles.

Beverly Parayno is the author of the story collection WILDFLOWERS (PAWA Press, 2023), which was shortlisted for the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Awards; winner of a 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal and a 2024 National Indie Excellence Award for Asian American & Pacific Islander Fiction; and finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards and 2024 American Fiction Awards. She serves on the board of PAWA and the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland. She lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills and co-facilitates the Cameron Park Library Writers Workshop.

Dina Klarisse Dugar is the author of Handspun Rosaries (2022). Her work has been published in ASU’s Canyon Voices, The Daily Drunk Mag, Chopsticks Alley, and Kalopsia Literary Journal, among others. She serves on PAWA’s Board of Directors, and is a member of the Filipino American International Book Festival’s organizing committee.

Aileen Cassinetto is a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and San Mateo County’s poet laureate from 2019 to 2022. She is also the co-editor of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (2023), and The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders(2025).

Dr. Melinda Luisa de Jesús is former Chair and Associate Professor of Diversity Studies at California College of the Arts. She writes and teaches about Filipinx/American cultural production, girl culture, monsters, and race/ethnicity in the United States. She edited Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, the first anthology of Filipina/American Feminisms (Routledge, 2005). Her first collection of poetry, peminology, was released by Paloma Press in March 2018.