Grace Talusan was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US with her parents at age 3. She grew up in the suburbs of Boston and later graduated from Tufts University with a degree in English. After going west to earn an MFA in fiction from the University of California-Irvine, Grace taught in the creative writing program at the University of Oregon.

Grace was awarded an Artist Grant in Fiction Writing from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a residency at Hedgebrook, and other fellowships and awards. She was a finalist in Creative Nonfiction's Silence Kills Essay Contest in 2007 and won the Ivy Teresaka Short Fiction Award in 2006.

Grace's publications include work in the Brevity, the Del Sol Review, Creative Nonfiction, Parents and Kids, and The Boston Globe. She wrote the children's book, Joey's Special Eye, which was published by the EyeCare Foundation and distributed worldwide free to families dealing with retinoblastoma (Rb) - a rare pediatric eye cancer. She has also published pedagogical articles about online writing classes and blogging with elders as well as first year students and diversity in the composition classroom.

Currently, Grace teaches writing at Tufts University and Grub Street.