Donald Carreira Ching

Donald A. Carreira Ching was born and raised in Kahalu‘u on the island of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. He earned his PhD in English from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. In 2015, his novel Between
Sky and Sea: A Family’s Struggle was published by Bamboo Ridge Press. In 2017, he was awarded the Elliot Cades Award for Literature. He is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Leeward Community College and recently completed a near-future eco-thriller. To learn more, visit www.donaldcarreiraching.com.

Donald works with students and community writers through workshops and school visits. A teacher’s guide for his first novel is available here, and teachers interested in a classroom visit can contact Bamboo Ridge Press.

He is also an interviewer and co-organizer for the Bamboo Ridge Press Oral History Project.

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praise for Blood work

“In formally inventive stories filled with intimacy and grace, Carreira Ching invites us to understand the Windward coast of O‘ahu as few other writers can.” 

—Kristiana Kahakauwila, author of This is Paradise and Clairboyance

“Each story pulses with a subdued urgency, whether it’s climate catastrophe, generational trauma, or the slow erosion of cultural identity. 5/5 stars.”

—Seattle Book Review