https://laurelfloresfantauzzo.com/the-first-impulse daily 0.75 2020-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2365b11a1efa047325fe48/1579382130882-KV85PUKLQ5HJYM3J1C9Y/TFI+cover+page.png THE FIRST IMPULSE - A nonfiction love story and mystery. Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc were two young film journalists deeply in love. Alexis was the only child of his Filipino Canadian family who chose to stay in the Philippines. He wrote an open letter to Nika asking her to join him in his country. So she did, for love, leaving her own homeland, Slovenia, behind. On September 1, 2009, four intruders murdered the couple in their Quezon City home. Alexis was 28 and Nika was 29. The couple’s tragedy rippled across the Philippines and the world, leaving devastation and few answers in its wake. A year later, a young Filipina American author felt haunted by the unsolved case. So she began an investigation of her own. https://laurelfloresfantauzzo.com/essays daily 0.75 2023-02-21 https://laurelfloresfantauzzo.com/home daily 1.0 2020-11-03 https://laurelfloresfantauzzo.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-02-22 https://laurelfloresfantauzzo.com/bio daily 0.75 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2365b11a1efa047325fe48/1579383762720-MJC7WCVIRU09NWKQIGJ4/HannahReyesMorales__001.jpg Bio Laurel Flores Fantauzzo is the author of MY HEART UNDERWATER (Quill Tree Books, 2020) and THE FIRST IMPULSE (Anvil, 2017). Her essays have appeared in CNN Philippines, the New York Times, The Baffler and elsewhere. She has been named a Philippine National Book Award finalist, a PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize finalist, and the recipient of a Carlos Palanca Memorial Award. She was a Fulbright journalism fellow, a Hedgebrook resident, a grantee of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and an arts fellow at the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. She has taught writing and literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and Ateneo de Manila University. She currently lives with her wife between Los Angeles and Metro Manila. Photo by Hannah Reyes Morales https://laurelfloresfantauzzo.com/my-heart-underwater daily 0.75 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2365b11a1efa047325fe48/1582920271942-UFX9XXJVY4CHR0K957XP/MyHeartUnderwater_HC_01.jpg MY HEART UNDERWATER - A young adult novel about a queer Filipina American teenager. Cory Tagubio is an outcast at her all-girls Catholic high school. In the wake of an accident, Cory grows close to her history teacher, Ms. Holden, but when the crush turns into something more, Cory is shipped off to her half-brother in the Philippines, leaving her to discover how her family and their country have shaped her past and how they might change her future. https://laurelfloresfantauzzo.com/interviews daily 0.75 2023-02-22