Phantom Of Alabat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781591093824)

1. Biography: Allyn Cauagas Ryan was born in the Philippines and came to the United States in 1957 as a foreign student. She attended UCLA and received a BA in English and an MFA in Theater and Film. At UCLA one of her short stories, A Trip to Manila, was ranked with the finalists in the Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Contest. Other stories appeared in Westwind and The Uclan Review (both UCLA journals). A one-act play, The Earth Is a Silver Peso, was produced by the 3K7 Theater on campus. Other works appeared in Literary Apprentice, a University of the Philippines review, in the Philippines Free Press, in the Philippines Herald, and in school magazines Filipino Child Life and In the Grade School. Ms. Ryan is in Who's Who...publications and in the Dictionary of International Biography, 1998. Now a retired community college instructor in English and English-as-a-Second-Language, she resides with her husband in Sun City Palm Desert and Twin Peaks, California.