Category: Interview
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A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips…
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Cane and Malunggay: An Interview With Mānoa Journal Guest Editors Rajiv Mohabir and Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
On Thursday March 6, Rajiv Mohabir (Guest Editor of Karahee From the Cane Fields) and Laurel Flores Fantauzzo (Guest Editor of Always Again) joined Gabriella Contratto and Chandanie Somwaru for an interview and conversation held at the English Department of UH Mānoa as part of the Words at Mānoa series. They were asked questions about…
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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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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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