A Reading at UH Hilo

Join writers Tamara Wong Morrison, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Darlene Javar, and Cathy Song for a reading on UH Hilo campus! The writers will read excerpts of their works, and the audience will have a chance to ask questions and talk story. Light refreshments will be provided.

About the writers:

Tamara Wong Morrison: A poet and teacher who began teaching poetry in Hawaiʻi’s public schools in 1987 and is still teaching full-time at Volcano School of Arts & Sciences. Her collection of poems titled Aloha is Endangered will be published next year by Bamboo Ridge Press.

Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl: An award-winning playwright, novelist, and short-story writer whose works have been anthologized, and whose plays have been performed in Hawaiʻi, the continental U.S., Britain, Asia, and the Pacific. She is a writer-producer for the documentary series Biography Hawaiʻi and guest editor for the recent Bamboo Ridge Issue #126.

Darlene Javar: A retired principal, she now has more time for roses, fishing, quilting, ʻohana, and poetry. She has been published by Bamboo Ridge Press and other journals since 1988. Patsy’s Gingerbread Fantasy, published by Finishing Line Press, is her debut chapbook collection.

Cathy Song: A poet and short-story writer, she is a recipient of the Hawaiʻi Award for Literature, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She is the editor of Bamboo Ridge Press, one of the nation’s longest running independent presses, founded in 1978. Check out her book All the Love in the World.

This event is sponsored by the UH Hilo Performing Arts Department and English Department, through the generous support of the Droste Foundation.