Kīpuka: Finding Refuge in Times of Change edited by Donald Carreira Ching

A collection of diverse voices explore the challenges of growing up and living in contemporary Hawai'i. Edited by Donald Carreira Ching, Meredith Desha Enos, Brenda Kwon, and Misty-Lynn Sanico, this special issue of Bamboo Ridge is a sampling of local literature two decades into the 21st century, during a period of unprecedented economic stress, pervasive uncertainty, natural disasters, and climate change adding to sociopolitical upheaval--and a pandemic. The call for submissions to this anthology referenced Kilauea's 2018 eruption, a reminder that renewal and erasure are natural law. Work on this book progressed while a global health crisis burgeoned. The collection includes pandemic writing by established local favorites Darrell H. Y. Lum, Juliet S. Kono, R. Zamora Linmark, and award-winning poet and critical care nurse Christy Passion. It also embraces emerging writers, such as Kaua'i High English teacher Jonathon Medeiros, who, when schools closed during the 2020 lockdown, started