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Subo and Baon

A Memoir in Bites

In Subo and Baon: A Memoir in Bites, Ella deCastro Baron invites us to a communal meal, a roundtable collection of creative nonfiction. The subo (handfed bites) and baon (food to go) she serves are kitchen counter-stories marinated in Filipino American identity, faith, family, chronic illness, and the complex fullness of being, becoming. Here, ancestors and more-than-human kin conspire, too. This is kapwa, deep interconnection. May those who partake in Ella’s generous offerings savor, metabolize, and be fed by core Filipino values that infuse flavor and sustenance into American culture.

About the Author

Ella deCastro Baron

Ella deCastro Baron (she/siya/we) is a second generation Filipina American born and raised in Coastal Miwok territory (Vallejo, CA). She is a VONA alum; holds an MFA in Creative Writing; teaches Composition and Creative Writing at San Diego City College, S.D. Mesa College, U Mass Global; and co-facilitates “Where We Come From: Writing Your Ethnoautobiography” and “To Exist Is to Flare: Loving Our Chronically Ill Minds and Bodies” through Urban Haiku. She is also a mycelial 2024 Mushroom School cohort leader with Corporeal Writing. Ella’s first book of creative nonfiction is Itchy, Brown Girl Seeks Employment and she’s published in Nonwhite and Woman, (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Epidemic, Anomaly magazine, Rumpus, Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, and Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (all from City Works Press), and more. As a woman of color who lives with chronic dis-ease, Ella honors sensations, images, story, dance, and decolonial truth-telling. She produces workshops and kapwa (deep interconnection) gatherings that stir love and justice via writing, art, joy, grief-tending, movement, food (yes!) and community. She lives and loves on Kumeyaay territory (San Diego, CA) with her husband and interracial family. Her favorite pronoun, more than ever, is We.

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