Susan Schultz professes American poetry and creative writing at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. She is author of several volumes of poetry, most recently Dementia Blog, a book of essays, A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, as well as two edited collections.
Sandra Park’s novel, If You Live in a Small House, debuted this year. Her fiction and poetry appeared in Honolulu Stories, the St. Petersburg Review, The Iowa Review, and New American Writing. From Hawaii, she teaches at Ohlone College in California.
Chris McKinney is the author of The Tattoo, The Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row, and Mililani Mauka. Born in Honolulu of Korean, Japanese, and Scottish descent, he portrays the native Hawaiian experience from the inside, where children of mixed ethnicity grow up far from the clear water and pristine beaches of the rich visitors' resorts.