Hi Fledgling!
Meet my friend, Noelani Piters. Since I was first introduced to her work in a memoir workshop at a Juniper Summer Sessions with T Kira Madden, she and the other folks from our workshop have become emblematic of the slivery good side to social media. Keeping up with the way Noelani moves through the literary world is earnestly inspiring. Through prose or poetry, there is something so genuine and inviting about her voice whether welcoming you into her life’s “homes” in her essay “Descent” for swamp pink or diving into shadowy corners of inheritance in the poem “My/Mother’s Fears, My Beauties” published in The Offing. Here we discuss what it looks like to commit to being an involved literary citizen and how exercising her craft helps her discover how she feels.
Noelani Piters is a writer living in San Francisco. She is a 2025 VONA Fellow, and was a 2024 Disquiet Literary Prize Poetry Finalist and a 2023 Molokai Arts Center Artist in Residence. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from Poetry Northwest, The Hopkins Review, Poetry, The Offing, swamp pink, and Pleiades.
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