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Marivi Soliven is a Filipina author based in America where she works as an interpreter. Her background as a writer includes having taught creative writing at the University of the Philippines, the Ayala Museum, and the University of California in San Diego. The Mango Bride has earned her a Hedgebrook writing residency last August 2012, and in 2011, garnered the Grand Prize for the Novel in English at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Soliven has authored other works, namely Suddenly Stateside and Spooky Mo. ...more

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Don’t Quit the Day Job!

The invitation to deliver the keynote speech for the 2025 Local Authors Showcase at the San Diego Public Library was both an honor and a writing challenge. What could I possibly tell an auditorium-full of authors about writing? I decided to skip the usual stories about how my childhood as a dedicated bookworm/nerd and cut […]

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Average rating: 3.91 · 1,218 ratings · 220 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mango Bride 3.90 avg rating — 1,082 ratings — published 2013 — 8 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
	Spooky Mo: Horror Stories 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Philippine Fright: 13 Scary Stories by Marivi Soliven Blanco, Reinard P. Santos (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1996	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
	Suddenly Stateside 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002 — 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
	The Unicorn by Marivi Soliven Blanco, Robert A. Alejandro (Illustrator) 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	Sexy, Sassy, Singularly Happy: The Savvy Girl's Guide to Enjoying the Single Life 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2005	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
	The Hunt for the Hippocampus (A Jenny and Jay Mystery, #3) by Marivi Soliven Blanco, Remus San Diego (Illustrator) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996	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
	Chun really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992	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
	Spooky Mo: Scary Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Spooky Mo: Your Scary C-nt 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	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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“Long, long ago, I learned the heart cannot live in two places. I had to choose. My heart is in America. Where is yours?”
― Marivi Soliven, The Mango Bride

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“Mango Brides make the sweetest wives!”
― Marivi Soliven Blanco, The Mango Bride

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“That hummingbird could have taught me something about women back when it mattered,” Aldo murmured. The thumb-sized bird flitted about, inserting its needle-thin beak into each flower for a scant second before going on to the next one. “See, he knows if he lingers he’ll kill the bloom.”
― Marivi Soliven Blanco, The Mango Bride

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