Finding Refuge in Times of Change - HIGHLIGHTS

A special issue of Bamboo Ridge (#119) examines what it means to be living and growing up in contemporary Hawai‘i, with poetry and prose about the struggle to protect Mauna Kea, and reactions to the current pandemic.

Joanna Gordon iis a first-year PhD candidate studying Storytelling and Rhetoric at Indiana University and has degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Western Washington University. Her poems and prose have been published with Cherry Tree, The Tenderness Project, Blood Tree Literature, The Shore, Oxford Press, Nimrod and more. Her poems are interested in notions of belonging, joy, settler colonialism, and more.

Navid Najafi aka Illnomadic was born in Tehran Iran, Nand found home when he migrated to Hawai‘i after high school to attend the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Najafi has become an active ally, artist, organizer, teacher, mentor and volunteer in the community, and is currently the Learning Programs Coordinator at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design in Honolulu. He is also the co-founder and an administrator/artist for Soundshop, a hip hop education workshop series at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

Ngaio Simmons (she/her, he/him) is a queer writer and performer with a degree in English from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Writing from the diaspora as a Māori poet born and raised away from Aotearoa, New Zealand, her work digs into such themes as diaspora, identity conflict, and home. Her work has been featured in Public Journal, Flux Hawaiʻi, Contemporary Verse, Tayo Literary Magazine, Hawaiʻi Review, and Ora Nui.

Doug Upp is lucky & grateful his words were recently seen in local magazines Tropic, and The Manifold. In 2019, Canadian poet Amber Dawn picked upp and paid Doug, to be included in Arsenal Pulp’s Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry. If the dope ain’t too mean he won’t blow this, and finish his latest sex worker rights zine KICKT (Kaniela Ing Can’t Know This).

Donald Carreira Ching (he/him/his) was born and raised in Kahaluʻu, on the island of Oʻahu. His poetry and fiction have appeared in publications such as Rio Grande Review, NonBinary Review, and Every Day Fiction. In 2015, his debut novel, Between Sky and Sea: a Family's Struggle, was published by Bamboo Ridge Press. In 2018, he received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Emerging Writer.

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