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Noelani Piters is a writer of Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, Chinese, and haole descent living in San Francisco. A recipient of fellowships from Indigenous Nations Poets, VONA, and PEN America, she was a finalist for the 2025 James Welch Prize and the 2024 Disquiet Literary Prize in poetry. Noelani was a 2023 Molokai Arts Center Artist in Residence and has received scholarships and support from Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Kearny Street Workshop. Her work can be found in Poetry Northwest, The Hopkins Review, Poetry, The Offing, Epiphany Magazine, swamp pink, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Noelani has contributed to The Rumpus and SOMA Magazine, and is the former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Ignatian Literary Magazine. She is currently at work on a poetry manuscript exploring the fragmentation of diasporic, mixed identity in the wake of familial loss and colonial rupture, and its restorying through the ancestral, the archival, and the ‘āina.
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