for all the high school students who have been messaging me on FB, here it is:
DARYLL DELGADO’s first book of short stories, After the Body Displaces Water (USTPH, 2012), won the 32nd National Book Award for Short Fiction, and was a finalist in the 2013 Madrigal-Gonzales First Book Award. She has also received a Philippines Free Press award for her fiction in 2010. Her more recent works have appeared in Maximum Volume 1 (Anvil, 2013); AGAM (2013); Our Memory of Water (Ateneo de Naga Press, 2016), and High Chair (http://www.highchair.com.ph/issue_22/22_delgado_placeoftrauma.htm); and Resurgent (http://www.resurgent.ph/artikulo/bodies). She has been a lecturer at the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University, and Miriam College. She currently works for the Southeast Asia office of an international labor and human rights NGO. Daryll has a BA in Journalism and MA in Comparative Literature from UP Diliman. She currently resides in Quezon City with her husband, William. She was born and raised in Tacloban City (in the Visayas, the central part of the Philippines) and continues to call Tacloban home.
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I don't know if this helps you understand the story you're being required to read. But thanks for reading. I'll be posting answers to some of your questions on this blog soon. :)
