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Cinelle Barnes

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in Manila, Philippines

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry

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BEAUTY in TRUTH

Cinelle Barnes is a creative non-fiction writer and educator from Manila, Philippines. She writes memoirs and personal essays on trauma, growing up in Southeast Asia, and on being a mother and immigrant in America. In 2014, she was nominated for the AWP Journal Intro Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and in 2015 received an MFA from Converse College. She was part of the inaugural Kundiman Creative Non-Fiction Intensive in New York City and will be attending the VONA/Voices workshop for political content writing at the University of Pennsylvania in summer 2017. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Hub, South85, Skirt!, West Of, Your Life Is A Trip, the Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Series, Itinerant Literate's StoryS ...more

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	Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 5,199 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home by Nicole Chung (Goodreads Author) (Editor)(Introduction), Mensah Demary (Contributor)(Editor)(Intro.), Victoria Blanco (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 1,147 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malaya: Essays on Freedom 4.34 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South by Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Jaswinder Bolina (Contributor), Regina N. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Water for Us All it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Way Home: A Memoir of Losing Yourself, and the Beauty of Returning it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It can’t be a joyride without a few bumps. No, it wouldn’t be a joyride at all.”
― Cinelle Barnes, Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir

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“one rich girl’s trash is a poor girl’s dinner.”
― Cinelle Barnes, Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir

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“Words, images—where we three live. Home is, even here and even now, in the imagination.”
― Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom

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