Susan Evangelista

Susan Evangelista was born in Michigan, studied Philosophy and Literature at Swarthmore College, joined the Peace Corps immediately after college, and was sent to the Philippines—where she has now felt at home for 60 years. She married Oscar Evangelista and mothered three remarkable children. She taught Literature and Writing at Ateneo de Manila University for 30 years, guesting in schools in Nigeria, Japan, Cambodia, and more informally in a Burmese refugee center in Thailand.