Publications
Debut poetry collection, KAMA'Δ€INA, forthcoming from Penguin, June 2027
forthcoming
"Ode to Ashy Knees," The Atlantic
"Volleyball Girls" & "Getting Our Toes Done," Beloit Poetry Journal
"In San Juan," "Loophole," & "Other Lessons," Colorado Review
"Haole: Etymology," RHINO Poetry, finalist for 2025 Founders' Prize
"While You Sleep Soundly, Faced Away From the Window," Indiana Review
"Poem After the End of O'ahu As I Know It" & "Love Song," Ocean State Review
"My Parents Kiss in a Convertible on the Pali" & "Giant Snails," Prairie Schooner
"Haul of Loss," Meridian, Issue 50
"Poolside Sonnet," Denver Quarterly Review, Vol. 60.2
"Revision," Southern Humanities Review, Issue 59.1
"Wesside Haibun" Colorado Review, Issue 53.1 Spring
"Gyotaku of Myself," Gulf Coast Journal, Issue 38.1 Winter/Spring
"Mo'olelo," Black Warrior Review, Issue 49.2 Spring/Summer
digital
"How to Love a Sinking Island," Bellingham Review, Issue 91, winner of the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry, selected by Gabrielle Bates
"I adore and admire this poem’s absolutely gorgeous sounds, its powerful accumulation of commands, and the tension of its many contrasts: how each element of the poem exists in service to a meaningful and complicated argument. Ode, lament, litany, song, and more, this poem does what my favorite poems do; it delights, instructs, and haunts. It rewards each additional reading and resonates deep in the heart. What a gift.”
—Gabrielle Bates
"At Mililani Memorial Park & Mortuary in November," Poetry Online
"What I Pull Up," The Harvard Gazette