Brandy Lien Worrall-Soriano

What Doesn’t Kill Us chronicles Brandy’s journey with an aggressive, rare breast cancer at the age of 31. The book reflects on the parallels between her experiences with cancer, and her American father’s and Vietnamese mother’s trauma and survival during and after the Vietnam War. The book crosses borders, from rural, Amish-country Pennsylvania, where Brandy had grown up, to Vancouver, where she lived with her parents, husband, and two young children while enduring aggressive chemotherapy, radiation, and a double mastectomy. The book also explores the enduring legacy of chemical warfare on three generations. That both of her parents had been heavily exposed to Agent Orange does not escape Brandy, who searches for reasons why she would have cancer despite not having a family history, as well as having had epilepsy as a child. She also wonders how this exposure has touched her own children. Brandy tells her story with razor-sharp humour and wit, leaving readers a lasting impression of the meaning of survival.

Poet Brandy Liên Worrall has created “Brandy’s Poem of the Day,” posted daily on http://podbrandy.livejournal.com. This is the first collection from her poetry blog, chronicling her travels from rural Pennsylvania to Vancouver, British Columbia, and to other random places in between. Included in this collection are her unique “luc-bat” hybrid poems, putting a bilingual spin on the traditional Vietnamese poetic form. She also explores such topics as motherhood, marriage, legacies of war, and her multiethnic upbringing.

This is the second collection from the Poem of the Day series by Vietnamese American poet Brandy Liên Worrall. In this collection, many of Worrall’s poems are informed by a family history writing workshop she organized with the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia.

This is the third collection resulting from Vietnamese American poet Brandy Liên Worrall’s inspirational “Poem of the Day” project. In this edition, Worrall offers four months of poetry and photographs about the intriguing aspects of everyday life. Readers will be delighted by the meditations Worrall serves up in her poetry.

The fourth volume of Brandy Liên Worrall’s almost famous “Poem of the Day” will delight and intrigue readers interested in themes of biraciality, parenting, rural life, and urban isolation.

This volume of poet Brandy Liên Worrall’s “Poem of the Day” features the artwork of James Lawrence Ardena, a Filipino American mixed media artist based in Seattle.

In this sixth collection of poetry, Brandy Liên Worrall focuses on religious themes and questions, while also offering other daily musings.

In this seventh collection of the “podBrandy” series, Worrall is diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. This diagnosis leads her down the road to new, foreign, and ever-changing discoveries about herself and those around her.

This collection marks the second anniversary of the ongoing poem-a-day project. Topics tackled with passion and eloquence include cancer, loss, nostalgia, solitude, and existentialism.