Meet the Authors!:
Tamara Wong Morrison
Darlene Javar
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
Cathy Song
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
10:00-11:00 a.m.
UH Hilo Campus Center, Room 301
Open to the public
Four Hawaiʻi Island writers who are featured in the newest issue of the literary magazine Bamboo Ridge will read excerpts from their works, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Enjoy light refreshments and informal chats with the authors afterward!
Tamara Wong Morrison
A poet and teacher who began teaching poetry in Hawaiʻi’s public schools in 1987 and is still teaching full-time at Volcano School of Arts & Sciences. Her collection of poems titled Aloha Is Endangered will be published next year by Bamboo Ridge Press.
Darlene Javar
A retired principal, she now has more time for roses, fishing, quilting, ‘ohana, and poetry. She has been published by Bamboo Ridge Press, and other journals, since 1998. Patsy’s Gingerbread Fantasy, published by Finishing Line Press, is her debut chapbook collection.
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
An award-winning playwright, novelist, and short-story writer whose works have been anthologized, and whose plays have been performed in Hawaiʻi, the continental U.S., Britain, Asia, and the Pacific. She is a writer-producer for the documentary series Biography Hawaiʻi.
Cathy Song
A poet and short-story writer, she is a recipient of the Hawaiʻi Award for Literature, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She is the editor of Bamboo Ridge Press, one of the nation’s longest running independent presses, founded in 1978.
Sponsored by the UH Hilo Performing Arts Department and English Department, through the generous support of the Droste Foundation.
Any student with a documented disability who would like to request special accommodations for this event, should contact Justina Mattos at
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