"After the body displaces water" Wins the National Book Award for Best Book of Short Fiction in English!

from the NBDB websites: "CIRILO F. BAUTISTA PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK OF SHORT FICTION IN ENGLISH After the Body Displaces Water, by Daryll Delgado, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House" http://www.nbdb.gov.ph/index.php?tid1=0 Related News: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/133741/natl-book-awards-ust-publishing-house-named-publisher-of-the-year

"Reaching the World 2013" http://apwriters.org/reaching-the-world-2013-program/

Presented a paper on travel narratives and notions of self and home in the "Reaching the World" conference organized by Asia Pacific Writers Association (AP Writers) in Bangkok last October 4. Here's my member's bio, as it appears in the AP Writers website: Daryll Delgado’s book of stories, After the Body Displaces Water (2012), is a finalist in this year’s National Book Awards in the Philippines. Daryll has a BA in Journalism and MA in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines, where her Master’s thesis on fantasy as subversion received a special citation. She has also received a Philippines Free Press award for her fiction in 2010. She was a fellow in all the major writing workshops in the Philippines, and her short stories and essays have been published in various national publications and academic journals. She has been a lecturer at the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University, and Miriam College. She currently works for an international labor and human rights NGO which requires her to regularly travel around Asia and to the USA.