Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas

Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas (born Rowena Lopez Tiempo; June 13, 1951) is a Filipina poet, fiction writer and essayist. Quotes My first independent entry into the world of words, through reading, is associated inextricably with the cookies my mother used to bake when we were in Iowa. I acquired the written word more or less on my own; one might say I taught myself to read, although the groundwork was already laid for that grand activity upon which civilization is built. My earliest memories of toys are the alphabet blocks I played with. At the time when I discovered how to read, my parents – both writers five years out of the Iowa Writers Workshop – were finishing their Ph.D. in English in Denver, where, leery of babysitters, I tagged along to their classes under John Williams, Harold Priest, and Joe Billings. Look, she can read External links Category:1951 births Category:Poets from the Philippines Category:Essayists from the Philippines Category:Women authors from the Philippines Category:Women born in the 1950s Category:Living people