Folks You Meet in Longs & Other Short Stories by Lee Catalina
Folks You Meet in Longs & Other Short Stories by Lee Catalina
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Folks You Meet in Longs & Other Short Stories by Lee Catalina

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 Folks You Meet in Longs" by Lee Cataluna, winner of the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers Association Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence in Literature, is a powerful and poignant collection that vividly brings to life everyday people in Hawaiʻi. Through authentic voice and keen artistic sensibility, Cataluna captures the essence of familiar local characters—from neighbors and classmates to aunties and uncles—with humor, heart, and deep cultural insight.

  • Yeat published: 2005
  • Number of pages: 144

About the Author:

Lee Cataluna was born on Maui and raised in plantation houses in Wailuku, Kōloa, and Ka'u. She was a 2004 recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature and her first book, FOLKS YOU MEET IN LONGS AND OTHER STORIES, received the Hawai'i Book Publishers Association's Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for Excellence in Literature. Her play, Da Mayah, was included in the anthology HE LEO HOU, A NEW VOICE, which also received the Excellence in Literature Ka Palapala Po'okela. After working for ten years in local television and radio, she became a columnist for The Honolulu Advertiser and currently writes for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser while a graduate student in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.