 | Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia Flores Evelyn : Evelyn Flores is associate professor of literature at the University of Guam focusing on post/counter-colonial studies, Native and women's studies, and Pacific Island literatures.Kihleng Emelihter : Emelihter Kihleng is a poet and author. She has held academic and other professional positions in Pohnpei, Guam, Hawai'i, and New Zealand, and is a curatorial research fellow at the MARKK, Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany.Perez Craig Santos : Craig Santos Perez , 2023 winner of the National Book Award for poetry, is a Chamoru author and editor from Guam. He was most recently professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.Hattori Anne Perez : Anne Perez Hattori is a native Chamorro, born and raised in Guam. She is professor of history, Micronesian studies, and CHamoru studies at the University of Guam.Howard Chris Perez : Chris Perez Howard believes that his adventurous spirit and endless curiosity are responsible for his unconventional life. Among his experiences, he served in the U.S. military; worked for the American Express Co. in New York; struggled as an artist in Rome, Italy; lived in Yap, the Seychelles, and the Philippines; and went to Africa to see wild animals in their natural habitat. In Guam, he has worked as a teacher, a news editor for the Guam Tribune, an assistant to the president of the Guam Community College, and a press secretary for the Governor of Guam. Academically, he attended the University of Alabama and Indiana University, and he graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor of fine arts degree. Chris is also a CHamoru rights activist, and is a former chairman of the Organization of People for Indigenous Rights (OPI-R) and has presented testimony before the United Nations and the US Congress. Presently, he is working on his novel - I Mestisan Engles .Jetñil-Kijiner Kathy : Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is Climate Envoy for the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the director of Jo-Jikum, an environmental nonprofit.Perez Craig Santos : Craig Santos Perez , 2023 winner of the National Book Award for poetry, is a Chamoru author and editor from Guam. He was most recently professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.Teaiwa Katerina : Katerina Teaiwa is associate professor and deputy director Higher Degree Research in the School of Culture, History, and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University.Teaiwa Teresia Kieuea : Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (1968-2017) was an influential scholar, teacher, activist and poet, and director of Pacific Studies and Samoan Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. Evelyn Flores (Editor) |
