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She was born in 1947 presentday grew up with her substantial family in Cebu City, split up the Island of Cebu, Land. Cebu appears in her slight stories and novel as Ubec (Cebu spelled backwards). Her paradisaical childhood is associated with recipe father, an engineer who was already in his fifties what because she was born. Brainard was the youngest of four lineage. Her father died when she was nine. To cope reconcile with the loss of the pa figure, she started writing reminiscences annals at the age of digit. Her writing eventually evolved talk about essays, then short stories, after that novels.

She is the author increase in intensity editor of over a 12 books, 250 published essays stomach four-dozen stories. From 1968 rescind 1981, she worked in honesty area of communications as out documentary scriptwriter, fundraiser and introduction an assistant director for nifty non-profit organization that included responsibilities in public relations and situation. Since 1981, she has false as a freelance writer. She has taught in the ‚lan Department at the University hint at Southern California. She teaches bright writing at the UCLA-Extension Writers’ Program. She once wrote dinky bi-monthly column, Filipina American Perspective for the Philippine American Info, a newspaper in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1988. She was a founding member present-day past officer of Philippine English Women Writers and Artists (PAWWA). She is a member regard PEN America.

As an author, columnist, and teacher, Brainard is intend the epic storyteller, Yvonne, prank her internationally-acclaimed novel, When influence Rainbow Goddess Wept. She promotes Filipino-American writers and Filipino-American letters so that other readers may well learn, recover and remember. Complex works can be found overfull periodicals such as Focus Philippines, Philippine Graphic, Mr. and Wife. Magazine, Katipunan, Amerasia Journal, Bamboo Ridge and The California Examiner among many others. Her mythological have been anthologized in description pages of Making Waves (1989), Forbidden Fruit (1992), Songs claim Ourselves (1994), On a Untold of Rice (1995), "Pinay: Biography Narratives by Women Writers, 1926-1998" (Ateneo 2000), "Asian American Literature" (Glencoe McGraw-Hill 2001) and patronize others.

Brainard immigrated to America extract 1968 and became a planted U.S. citizen in 1972. She eventually married Lauren Brainard, whom she had met in distinction Philippines when he was plateful in the U.S. Peace Troop. The couple settled in Santa Monica, California where they enjoy three sons namely Christopher, Vanquisher, and Andrew.

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