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NEW EPISODE!! This episode features the fiction of Keala Kendall and the music she’s chosen to go with her work! Listen for how we go home through what we read and what we write. Listen for supernatural horror based on moʻolelo. Listen to look past glossy tourist images of Hawaiʻi and the mythmaking of paradise. Listen for why you shouldn't harvest at night. Listen to launch spooky season. And listen because this is a damn good story. ✨Full episode link in bio and stories.✨

BIO
Keala Kendall is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of How Far I’ll Go and Nobody Gets Left Behind in Disney’s A Twisted Tale series. Her groundbreaking YA horror debut, That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic, was the May pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Sunnie Reads book club and has been featured in BuzzFeed, Parade, Publishers Weekly, and Honolulu Civil Beat, with national syndication across Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN.

Hapa Native Hawaiian, she is a cofounder of Pacific Islanders in Publishing and a past organizer of the Books for Maui charity auction. Born in Honolulu, raised on Molokaʻi, she now lives as part of the Native Hawaiian diaspora in Los Angeles.

Find her @kealakendall on Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and TikTok.


PLAYLIST
--Hawaiʻi ’78 by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
--Author Intro
--LIT: Letter from the author.
--Runaway by Aurora
--LIT: “Hawaiʻi’s this way”
--River Lea by Adele
--LIT: “memory and nightmare”
--Hole-Hole Bushi by Agnes Kimura
--Author interview
--Hawaiʻi Aloha by Kaʻikena Scanlan
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 #YAhorror