Michelle Cruz Skinner


Michelle Cruz Skinner is a Philippine-born educator and writer living in Hawaii.
The daughter of an American father from Indiana and a Filipino mother from Manila, she was born in Rizal and spent her formative years at the Subic Bay Naval Base before moving to Honolulu in 1983. She was educated at the University of Hawaii and Arizona State University and went on to teach at Punahou School in Honolulu. Her story "Faith Healer" was included in the 7th Annual PEN Syndicated Fiction Project in 1988. Her second book Mango Seasons was nominated for the 1996 Philippine National Book Award.

Selected works