Barbara jane reyes biography of donald

          Born in the Philippines and raised in the Bay Area, Barbara Jane Reyes has been navigating the nuances of multiple languages from an early age.

        1. Barbara Jane Reyes is a a Filipina American poet raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.
        2. Based in Oakland, Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and is the author of six full length poetry collections.
        3. Author, Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions ), Invocation to Daughters (City Lights ) & others.
        4. As a successful, Filipina-American, experimental feminist poet, Barbara Jane Reyes is something unusual.

          5. Based in Oakland, Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and is the author of six full length poetry collections..

          Barbara Jane Reyes

          American poet (born 1971)

          Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing, self and culture."[1]

          Early life

          Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.

          She received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. As an undergraduate, Reyes "served as editor in chief for maganda magazine, and witnessed the emergence of Filipino American literary figures."[2] Reyes received her M.F.A.

          She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, ) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, ), which received the James Laughlin Award.

          at San Francisco State University.

          Career

          Reyes is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets,[3] and Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).

          Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including 2nd Avenue Poetry, Asian Pacific American Journal, Boxcar Poetry Review, Chain, C