Creative Writing Faculty



Joseph Han,

Creative Writing, Novel writing, the Short Story Collection, Short Form Writing, Hybrid & Experimental forms, Literatures of Hawaiʻi, Asian American Literature, Speculative fiction, Surrealism, Fiction-to-Film Adaptations, Non-fiction


Kristiana Kahakauwila, MFA

creative writing and craft theory, fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, journalism, travel writing, Oceanic/Pacific literature, literatures of Hawai'i, contemporary Native American literature


Noʻu Revilla, Ph.D.

creative writing; spoken word; Indigenous and decolonial poetics; lyric essays, hybrid, multi-lingual, and experimental writing; ʻŌiwi literature and theory; Pacific poetry and performance; feminist studies; queer theory; cultural studies


S. Shankar, Ph.D.

Postcolonial theory and literature, creative writing, critical caste studies, cultural journalism, literary theory and cultural studies, translation and translation studies, US literature of immigration