Congratulations to Barbara Jane Reyes whose essay collection, Wanna Peek Into My Notebook?: Notes on Pinay Liminality, has been named a Finalist for the 2025 American Legacy Book Awards in the Creative Nonfiction category!
Wanna Peek Into My Notebook? was also recently honored with the Best Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.
In his blurb, poet and professor Allan G. Aquino reflects on this collection’s significance: “If heritage is the sum of cultural treasures, we find memories of our own families and personal moments in the nuances, chemistry, and music of her language. As interstellar black holes bend time and light, she demonstrates how poets, as forces of gravity, bend or re-make the “rules” of language. Her unstoppable catalogue is a defiance against silence and marginalization, while a compassionate light for others, most especially Filipinos of the world who, beyond place and time, grow from a common root: an identity undeniably our own, which we’re all responsible for nourishing.”
Congratulations again, Barbara Jane, on creating work that is wholly deserving of every accolade it receives.
