Rhumba at the Rizal – one act play ; Generation Women Virtual stage for Stress Baking;
2012 Hedgebrook Fellow; 2011 Palanca Grand Prize for the Novel in English for The Mango Bride; 1998 Philippines Free Press short story award for Beaux Cafe; Silver medal, Palanca awards for The Pillowcase Cat and Chun (cannot recall the years)
UP, the 17th National Writers’ workshop (I forget the exact year), in the cohort of Ma Elena Paterno
Taxi Dancer (Red Hen Press, 2026); Suddenly Stateside: Postscript (Unsung Voices Books, 2026) Chief Flower Girl [Bilingual edition] (Tahanan Books, pub date TBD) Spooky Mo (Updated edition, Milflores Press 2022), “Pandemic Bread,” published in the San Diego Decameron Project anthology (Ink Spot Press, 2021); “Rhumba at the Rizal”– a one act play produced by the Asian Story Theater, and performed at Lyceum Theater in San Diego, 2017; The Mango Bride (NAL Penguin, 2013); Spooky Mo (Milflores Press 2008) Sexy, Sassy, Singularly Happy (Milflores, 2005); Baby Love (Milflores Press, 2004); Suddenly Stateside (Milflores, 2002); “Beaux Café” (Philippines Free Press magazine, 1998); Chief Flower Girl (Tahanan, 1998), The War of the Rose People (Bookmark, 1997); Philippine Fright (Tahanan Books, 1996),Jenny and Jay Pinoy Private Eye series: The Pillowcase Cat Caper; The Case of the Crime-Catching Camcorder; Hunt for the Hippocampus;The Subway Cyclops (Tahanan Books, 1996); The Toad and the Princess (Bookmark, 1994) ; Chun (Bookmark, 1992); The Unicorn (Bookmark, 1992); Pillow Tales (Vantage, 1992)
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