Fiction. Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. Winner of the Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Achievement Recognition Award, 1997. HER WILD AMERICAN SELF, Eveline Galang's first collection of stories, steps foot into the lives of Filipina American women, but is accessible to readers of all ethnicities. HER WILD AMERICAN SELF reminds us of the importance in staying true to oneself amidst cultural clashes and assimilation. "An honest and insightful look at the experiences of Filipina American women who 'grew up hearing two languages'"-Ms. Magazine. Galang teaches creative writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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M. Evelina Galang is the author of Her Wild American Self, a collection of short fiction. Galang is also the editor of Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, which won ForeWord Magazine's Gold Book of the Year Award for 2003. In 2001, she was the Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in the Philippines where she continued her work on Surviving Comfort Women of World War II for her collection of essays, Lolas' House: Women Living with War. Galang teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami.

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