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Being That Ocean for One Another: An Interview with Arielle Taitano Lowe
Arielle Taitano Lowe is a CHamoru author born and raised on the island of Guam. Her collection Ocean Mother debuted in March of 2024. She was a 2021-2022 Indigenous Nations Poets Poetry Coalition Fellow and is currently working towards her PhD in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. On December 10, 2023, I…
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Writing a Memoir and Defining Kuleana: An Interview with T Kira Madden
T Kira Māhealani Madden is an APIA writer who taught as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at UH Mānoa in the spring of 2024, having also taught at Mount Holyoke College and Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founding Editor in Chief of No Tokens, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House,…
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A Detective Novel Gone South: A Review of Thuận’s Elevator in Sài Gòn
The year is 2004. Vietnam is now one, but reverberations of the preceding wars—and its chasms—remain. It is in this year that Thuận opens Elevator in Sài Gòn, her second book translated into English from Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý. I have been looking forward to Thuận’s follow up in English since encountering her Anglophone…
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Redefining Narrative Through Bingo: A Review of Alan Michael Parker’s Bingo Bango Boingo
Review by Gabriella Contratto Occasionally I come across a book that upends my previously held expectations of how to form a narrative. Alan Michael Parker’s upcoming collection of flash fiction Bingo Bango Boingo (2025) is such a book. The book alternates between stand alone flash fiction, and stories presented as bingo cards. The flash is…
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Rediscovering the Forgotten: An Interview with Leanne Dunic
by Alexa Cho Leanne Dunic is a biracial and bisexual multidisciplinary artist. She is the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review, a mentor at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio, and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her most recent project is a book of lyric prose and photographs entitled, Wet (Talonbooks 2024).…
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