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8 Books By APIDA Authors to Read Right Now
On the eve of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month in May, consider this your invitation to stack your nightstand (or queue up your audiobooks) with voices that are vibrant, layered, and deeply human. These eight books by APIDA authors are perfect to read—or re-read—right now. Many are
Lessons from Spring’s Uncertainty
There’s something almost theatrical about early spring this year in the D.C. metro area—a season that refuses to settle into itself, as if unsure which version of the story it wants to tell. As I write this, our region is being advised to bring your plants indoors by the local
March Opens the Lens: Autumn Durald Arkapaw Makes History
March has always felt like a threshold. A hinge between what was and what insists on becoming. It is Women’s History Month, Multiracial Heritage Month, and that quiet but disorienting ritual of springing forward for Daylight Saving Time—losing an hour of sleep only to gain a longer stretch of light.
January 2026: Frozen in Time
January 2026 arrived with a kind of cold that did not hurry or apologize. Across half the country, a historic snow and ice storm settled in and stayed, pressing life into pause. Roads went quiet. Airports stilled. School systems, businesses, and government offices across Maryland, where we live, closed for
Missing Our Collie Rusty
Exactly one week after the new year, our beloved Rusty took his last breath here on earth. I stood clinging to Robert in the corner of the small, private room where our friends at the APAW Veterinary & Wellness Center gently guided Rusty over the rainbow bridge. A few short
2026: Saddle Up — Creativity in the Year of the Fire Horse
There’s something electric about the way a new year arrives. Even for those of us who side-eye resolutions and ritualized optimism, January still flips a switch. Our internal clocks reset. We step forward carrying both relief and anticipation. A clean slate. A steadying inhale. A quiet—or insistent—what if. But 2026
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Pain of the Littlest Finger
Collection of 11 short stories (fiction and flash fiction) that I wrote, edited, typeset, photographed, and designed from cover-to-cover as my final thesis project at the MFA Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program at the University of Baltimore. Three years of focused writing, workshop revision, and creativity culminated in this body of work that explores three generations of Filipino-American characters after World War II.
It explores the ties that bind family — whether the family you’re born into or the family that you make. It’s about sacrifice, surviving loss and betrayal; discovering one’s identity; and moving forward to an uncertain future. Historical backdrop settings include Luzon, Philippines; New York City; Washington, DC. and Annapolis, MD. Although a work of fiction, the stories are inspired by the real lives of people who overcame war, poverty, domestic abuse, gender identity and racism to build a place they can call home.
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