• “Da Kine but Different” and “Danger Close” - No Talk Li’dat (Kaya Press 2025)

    • “Search the Waters” - Honolulu Stories Today (Fall 2024)

    • “183” - StoryQuarterly, Issue 55 (Spring 2023)

    • RHINO Poetry (2024), “Gone at Whitney’s”

    • "How it Is" Rio Grande Review (Spring 2023)

    • "Lum's (Not Anymore)" (Bamboo Ridge issue #124)

    • “Search the Waters”

      Snaring New Suns: Speculative Works from Hawaiʻi and Beyond (Fall 2022)

    • "Kāneʻohe Town"

      Welter at the University of Baltimore, MicroFiction contest, Honorable mention

    • "Concerning Other Hobbits, and Other Matters", Daily Drunk Mag, One Anthology to Rule them All (Fall 2021)

    • "The Troll Experiment", Coffin Bell Journal

      (October 2021)

    • Paragraph Planet

      "He paddled out under pale sky" (June 2021)

    • NonBinary Review

      “Search the Waters” (Spring 2021)

      Vice-Versa

    • “Search the Waters” (Fall 2019)

    • Every Day Fiction

      "What Now?" - (February 2019)

    • Rock & Sling

      "What We Forget" - (Spring 2019)

    • Hawaiʻi Pacific Review

      "Derelict Orders" - (October 2018)

    • Bamboo Ridge issue #113

      "The Last Time I Saw Her: An Excerpt from Who You Know" - (Spring 2018)

    • Chaminade Literary Review - vol. 27

      "Counting Shadows" - (Fall 2016)

    • Summit Magazine

      "Another Life" - (Winter 2015)

    • Honolulu Star Advertiser - Halloween Fiction Contest 2015 Runner-up

      "The Coca" - (October 25, 2015)

    • Bamboo Ridge Press - Bamboo Ridge #106

      "Necessary Means" - (Spring 2015)

    • Bamboo Ridge Press – Bamboo Ridge #104

      “Bufo Season” – (Fall 2014)

    • Honolulu Star Advertiser - Halloween Fiction Contest 2014 Runner-up

      "Where the River Runs" (October 2014)

    • Hawaiʻi Review

      “Manaʻo from the prison notebooks of Kaʻaumoana Enos” – (Spring 2014)

    • Hawaiʻi Pacific Review

      “Haoles: An Excerpt from Between Sky and Sea” – (December 2013)

    • Honolulu Star Advertiser – Halloween Fiction Contest Runner-up

    • “They March” – (October 27, 2013)

    • Rain Bird: Literary and Art Journal – Love

    • “My Faddah’s Pride” – (Spring 2013)

    • Honolulu Star Advertiser – Halloween Fiction Contest Winner

      “Aunty Heʻe” - (October 28, 2012)

    • Bamboo Ridge Press - Bamboo Ridge #100

      “In Time” - (Fall 2012)

    •  Bamboo Ridge #100, Editor’s Choice Award: Best Prose

      “Traditions” – (Fall 2012)

    • Bamboo Ridge Press – Bamboo Ridge #100

      “What Was” – (Fall 2012)

    • Rio Grande Review – Issue 39

      “Aloha, from Elsewhere” – (Spring 2012)

    • Hawaiʻi Public Radio: Aloha Shorts – Liquid Words: Ocean, Sea, and Stream #2, #3

      “Between Sky and Sea” – (Original air date, April 17, 2012)

    • Honolulu Weekly: Fiction Contest – Runner-up

      “Da Same but Different” – (January 4, 2012)

    • Honolulu Star Advertiser

      “At Dawn” – (September 11, 2011)

    • Bamboo Ridge Press – Bamboo Ridge #98

      “Between Sky and Sea” – (Fall 2010)

    • Hawaiʻi Review 72

      “Between Sky and Sea” – (Spring 2010)

    • Cirque: A literary journal for the North Pacific Rim, Vol. 1, No. 2

    • “Skeletons of Summer” – (Fall 2009)

    Edited Works

    • Kīpuka: Finding Refuge in Times of Change (2021), co-editor

    • Bamboo Ridge issue #115 (2019), co-editor

    • Bamboo Ridge issue #110 (2016), co-editor

    • Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ 2026 Firecracker Award in Fiction for ‘Blood Work and Other Stories’

    • The Masters Review - 2024 Reprint Prize shortlist

    • Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize, Finalist, 2022

    • Patsy Sumie Saiki Award for Fiction, 2022

    • The Stephen C. & William H. Stryker Award for Fiction, 2022

    • Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize, Finalist, 2021

    • Welter at the University of Baltimore MicroFiction contest, Honorable Mention, 2021

    • Elliot Cades award for Literature, emerging author: 2017

    • Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award, Excellence in Literature, Honorable Mention: 2017

    • Ian MacMillan Award for Fiction: Spring 2014

BETWEEN SKY AND SEA is a story of three brothers, contemporary Hawaiian men, who represent the modern struggles of indigenous peoples while remaining indelible and singular characters. This unflinching portrait studies how loss, addiction, violence, and a brutal colonial history affect generations of a single ‘ohana. Yet the novel offers hope, too, for its characters and its readers, and the islands themselves.

—Kristiana Kahakauwila, author of This is Paradise


This triumphant debut novel reminds readers of a truth that must be hammered home as long as stories about this place are told: the Hawaiʻi of dream vacations is no more real to local residents than the nostalgic vision of an idyllic past. BETWEEN SKY AND SEA serves, along with Tyler Miranda’s ‘EWA WHICH WAY, as an announcement that Bamboo Ridge’s next generation of great local writers has arrived.

—Mark Panek, author of Hawaiʻi: a novel

The consequences are devastating as brothers Kā‘eo, Mark, and Elani have to choose between the modern and ancient worlds, between losing oneself to one’s pursuits and coming home. They go their separate ways, try to leave family behind, but find themselves inexorably linked in efforts to make things right. This is a disquieting novel, a quiet triumph.

—Rodney Morales, author of The Speed of Darkness and When the Shark Bites