ABOUT THE BOOK

13 Stories by the author of “Love in the Cornhusks” and “The Chieftest » Mourner” covering 100 years lived by a wide spectrum of characters all over the islands written in humorous-rumor-ous quasi-historical-biographical in-tertwinings with fiction in her unique style.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aida Rivera Ford edited the first two issues of the Sands and Coral, the literary magazine of Silliman University in 1948 and in 1949, the year she graduated with an A.B. degree, major in English, cum laude. In 1954, she obtained an M.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and won the prestigious Jules and Avery Hopwood Award for fiction. With the prize-money, she brought a car to Davao in the south where her mother had established a farm. (The author was born in Jolo, Sulu and the Rivera family had lived in different parts of the Visayas and Luzon because her father was a judge.) In Davao, she taught at the University of Mindanao and the Ateneo de Davao University where she held the position of Chairman of the Humanities Division for 11 years. In 1980, she founded the first school of Fine Arts in Mindanao-the Learning Center of the Arts, now known as the Ford Academy of the Arts.

In 1982, the city of Davao bestowed on her the Datu Bago Award for her contributions to culture and arts. In 1984, she was an awardee in the Phil. Government Parangal for Writers of the post-war years. In 1991, she was a Gawad CCP awardee for the Essay in English, and in 1993, Silliman University bestowed on her an “Outstanding Sillimanian Award” for her contributions to literary arts and culture. In 1993, the UP Creative Writing Center named her “National Fellow for Fiction.” She has directed two NCCA Mindanao-wide Creative Writing Workshops and two UP National Writers Workshops. She is the President of the Mindanao Foundation for Culture and Arts.