A Way Home with Cinelle Barnes
About this episode
Cinelle Barnes discusses her memoirs and experiences as a brain aneurysm survivor.
On this we have Cinelle Barnes. Cinelle Barnes is the Philippine-born author of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir, Malaya: Essays on Freedom, and A Way Home: A Memoir of Losing Yourself and the Beauty of Returning. She is also the editor of the New York Times “New and Noteworthy” A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South. Cinelle is a survivor of a brain aneurysm rupture and sits on the Brain Injury Leadership Council of South Carolina, and is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Fund, the Authors League Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts, and the North American Travel Journalists Association, among others. She has served on the jury panels for several literary awards, including the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Memoir. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Coastal Living, Travel + Leisure, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Southern Living, Memoir Land, and Longreads, among others. Cinelle lives in Charleston, SC, with her husband, daughter, and cat. You can purchase a copy of A Way Home here , and you can connect with Cinelle on Instagram . And if you’re interested in staying connected with the Kapwa…
People in this episode
Guest: Cinelle Barnes
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New York Times, Brain Injury Leadership Council of South Carolina, Sustainable Arts Fund, Authors League Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, South Arts, North American Travel Journalists Association, Coastal Living, Travel + Leisure, Oprah Daily
Books & works: Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir, Malaya: Essays on Freedom, A Way Home: A Memoir of Losing Yourself and the Beauty of Returning, A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South
Places: Charleston, SC
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