essays
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"I know good tape is a necessary part of documentary work and I want desperately to learn how to create it. But I'm also afraid of it: afraid of what it takes to get it; and afraid of what it does to my scholarship." |
"'What is this writing anyway…And what exactly do we mean when we say a writer?' These questions, so frequently explored by fiction writers and poets, are rarely broached by academics." |
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"Watch, as people taste this strange fruit. Catch the rotten flesh as they spit it out." |
Backpack
under review "They smiled and nudged each other, calling "Obruni! Obruni!" ("White man! White man!"), a one word dissertation on the limits of common ancestry." |
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Honeymoon
Runner Up, 2011 Halekulani Short Story Contest "I was twelve when we left Honolulu, and for months afterwards, I tried to get back in my dreams." |
Close to Home
Finalist, 2001 Savvy Traveler Essay Contest "I have nonetheless always known that the bride belongs to the day, and not the other way around." |