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WELCOME TO MY PORTFOLIO!

My name is Keisha! I am a hapa writer and artist based in Kona, HI, with a specialty in storytelling. I bide my time pondering history, culture, and my place in this all-embracing world.

Portfolio: About

WRITING: EXPOSITORY

Hoku’s Legacy Riders: Teaching next generation of paniolo on Big Island

Hoku Kaʻawaloa-Eiflander shares her horses — a whopping 22 — with kids as part of her operation, Hoku’s Legacy Riders, at her 28-acre ranch in the hills of Mountain View.

She Who Sings Fire: Mauna Loa

Eruptions symbolize the cleansing and rebirth of the land, and a reminder that the land is alive — that Hawaiʻi’s spirit is alive.

Visit to Alcatraz Island: Home of the Free

The prison halls were teeming with people eager to see Al Capone's cell, but the red graffiti paints a different story.

It's Official: Reef Safe Sunscreen is Law

Sunscreen is a beachgoer's closest ally, but potentially the coral reef's worst enemy.

TALK STORY: 'Ulu Makes the World Go 'Round

The Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative is committed to making this Hawaiian fruit a staple item, and uplift community farmers in the process.

How the United States Played a Key Role in Micronesian and Marshallese Poverty

The United States has played a long-time role in perpetuating poverty in West Polynesia. Between 1946 and 1958...

Hawai`i's First People: Before the Tahitians, the Marquesans Found a Home

When the Tahitians laid eyes on the Hawaiian archipelago for the first time in 1200 A.D., they didn’t find an isolated, tropical paradise...

40 Days in Purgatory: The Case of Junko Furuta

How a 17-year-old girl became the focal point of a crime investigation.

How Queers Found Sanctuary in Dungeons & Dragons

Alternatively: How Wizards of the Coast's tabletop role-playing game became the gayest game on the Internet.

Portfolio: Testimonials

WRITING: CREATIVE

Portfolio: Testimonials

Haggard men trudge up the mountain behind Yules at a torpid pace. In the distance, in the sea of lowland hills around them, the demented bodies of fiends and beasts are at play, their distant jubilant cries audible on the occasion, over the sounds of rummaging bags and clattering arsenal strapped to belts. They are far beyond the safety of a city's warded walls.

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Yules tugs a map free from its scroll case and unwinds the parchment. Her eyes flit across the page, from Ravenwater southward to Syonmard, through the foothills, to the black ink spill in the middle of the page, and the lettering beside it: MOTHER'S CRADLE. For seven centuries, the womb of the world represented by a dark scar across the continent—and a distant figment of mankind's imagination, where the Fall took place.

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Short grass turns to stone, cushioned footsteps now crunching on granite. The temperature chills; winds carried down from the mountains, into the expanse between the Divide to the east and the Thessagraves to the west.

Mother's Cradle, introduction

Portfolio: Work

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Please contact me for my CV, or if you are interested in connecting.

Kailua-Kona, HI 96740

m. (808) 747-7396

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