Prana Joy Mandoe
Prana Joy Mandoe is a writer, lauhala weaver, and educator originally from Maui, where winter surf booms on the cliffs. She went to Makawao and Haiku Schools, Saint Anthony’s, Seabury, Reed College, and finally graduated with a B.A. and teaching certificate from Ka Haka ʻUla ʻO Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Studies at UH Hilo. She has taught for 25 years in Hawaiian schools on Moku o Keawe. Her poetry can be found in Bamboo Ridge, Buddhist Poetry Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, and most recently, in Voices Unbound: An Anthology of International Poetry. She has also written on culture and arts for Ke Ola Magazine and Faces. She is interested in building generational health, as well as kapa & dyes, chickens, and yard-to-table eating. In her free time she enjoys loading her amazing family’s truck, plus plunging into cold brackish water.
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