Bamboo Ridge Issue 115

Edited by Cathy Song and Donald Carreira Ching, BAMBOO RIDGE Issue #115 is a memorable anthology of poetry and prose by thirty-three authors from diverse backgrounds. With a third of the writers new to the pages of BAMBOO RIDGE, the issue showcases both emerging writers and the work of established authors such as Sue Cowing, Cate Gable, Jim Harstad, Lanning C. Lee, Darrell H. Y. Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Christy Passion, Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo, Eric Paul Shaffer, John E. Simonds, Jean Yamasaki Toyama, and Mahealani Wendt. Cover art and an artist profile and portfolio feature Kaiʻili Kaulukukui, whose paintings and murals promote Hawaiian values of land, ocean, and cultural preservation.

Editors	Cathy Song, Donald Carreira Ching
ISBN	1943756015
ISBN-13	978-1943756018
Year Published	2019
Number of Pages	180
Weight	9.1 oz
Dimensions	9 × 6 × 0.5 in

With the publication of Issue #115, Bamboo Ridge remains committed to presenting a diversity of voices and experiences that is our common humanity. During its forty-one years of publishing literature in Hawaiʻi, Bamboo Ridge Press has recognized that, at the core of what makes Hawaiʻi—the most geographically isolated islands in the world and amongst the bluest states in the nation— unique is a culture of acceptance and inclusion. In many ways, the writers gathered in these pages are the results of our efforts to reflect that.

With work coming from ‘Ewa Beach to Singapore, you will read authors from across the state, the nation, and the world whose writing engages with themes and subjects that intersect across these pages and in our everyday lives here in Hawaiʻi. In addition to established talent and names you may recognize, you will find that nearly half of the work published comes from emerging talent and authors who have never been published in Bamboo Ridge before. You will also find a number of selections from Bamboo Shoots, a monthly writing contest that has become an online community for writers of all backgrounds to interact and post their works.

We are also pleased to feature the art of painter-muralist-artist Kaiʻili Kaulukukui, whose work tackles the personal and social with an emphasis on marine life and native culture. Overall, we hope that this issue continues the mission of Bamboo Ridge Press to publish and promote local authors, local writing, the arts in Hawaiʻi, and work by and about Hawaiʻi’s people.

Cathy Song
Donald Carreira Ching
Guest Editors, Bamboo Ridge Issue #115