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Volume IV
March 2006
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available at
Philippine Expressions Bookshop
linda_nietes@sbcglobal.net
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Copyright © 2006 Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc.
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About the Editor
Marivi Soliven Blanco
Editing Speak Up, Woman was a homecoming of sorts for Marivi Soliven Blanco, who had performed a similar, though less harrowing, task as Features Editor of her high school class annual. An unrepentant eavesdropper and people watcher, she has spent over a decade writing about funny, poignant human foibles that she has had the pleasure to observe.
She began by writing 10 children books, two of which won Silver Medals in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature category of Children’s Fiction. Ms. Blanco also won the1998 Grand Prize in the Philippine Free Press Fiction Contest for a short story about transvestite performers.
In recent years she has turned to writing for adult readers, authoring the best-selling essay anthology Suddenly Stateside; Baby Love (Milflores Publishing: Manila, 2002): Pinay’s Guide to Pregnancy (Milflores, 2003) and her most recent release Sexy, Sassy, Singularly Happy: The Savvy Girl’s Guide to Enjoying the Single Life (Milflores, 2005).
Marivi has an MA in Teaching from Simmons College, Boston, and a BA in Mass Communications from UP Diliman. She lives and writes in Southern California with her husband, John and their daughter, Sofia.