Hawaii Book and Music Festival

Kiele Gonzalez of the ʻĀpuakea rain of Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu, is co-author of Hānau ka Ua: Hawaiian Rain Names and has copyedited Palapala: A Journal for Hawaiian Language and Literature. She has a BA from UH–Mānoa in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and journalism, and an MA from UH–Hilo... Read More →

Dr. Charles (Kale) Langlas was formerly an associate professor at Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language, now retired. Originally he trained as an anthropologist and has done ethnographic research in New Guinea, at Kalapana on Hawaiʻi Island and at Kalaupapa... Read More →

Jeffrey (Kapali) Lyon is the chair of the department of religion at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the editor of the Palapala journal. Following the publication of the two-volume Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo, he and Charles Langlas have been working on a new edition... Read More →

Noelani Arista is an Associate Professor of Hawaiian and U.S. History at UH Mānoa. Her book,The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States was awarded the Best Book Award of 2020 by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). Her... Read More →