Marianne Villanueva was born and raised in the Philippines. She is the author of the short story collections Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila (Calyx 1993), Mayor of the Roses (Miami University Press 2005), and The Lost Language (Anvil 2009), and co-edited Going Home to a Landscape, an anthology of Filipino women’s writing from around the world. Her novella Jenalyn (Vagabondage Press 2013) was a finalist for the 2014 Saboteur Awards. Her stories have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Threepenny Review, ZYZZYVA, The Crab
Orchard Review, PANK, Café Irreal, and Your Impossible Voice. She is currently Mendocino Art Center’s writer-in-residence.Expatriate Writer (Portland, Oregon)
I I try looking in old books to see what a mango tree looks like, to see if they look anything like what I remember. Because I haven’t seen one in over twenty years, have never ever seen one here, in California. And sometimes what I think of as a mango tree...
