Lisa Suguitan Melnick

We Filipina Women's Network's 2015 Global 100 Most Influential Women in the World awardees were asked to choose fifteen words that...

My son, Ryan Akira, designed the book cover, choosing to embed images of the stories which he felt carried special significance. And I...

That Whitney Houston song, "Waiting to Exhale", has been a longtime favorite of mine and this line from the song came to me as I watched...

...to move aside the, let's see...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,...

"Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA) and the San Francisco Public Library, along with the Philippine Consulate General of San...

I requested that you Can it, your Rants, your prima donna Rants But you can’t, Can It. I won’t let you in on my heart’s level of hurt,...

It was the fragrance of a bar of soap called Bee & Flower Sandalwood that transported me back forty years, to childhood days spent at my...

In this lovely collection, Beyond Lumpia, Pansit, and Seven Manangs Wild, (Eastwind Books, 2014) you'll find two of my pieces: "Agtawid"...

I percolate my creations in solitude and silence a lot. When I say I don't get out much, I'm really revealing that I don't get here, to...