Folks You Meet in Longs and Other Stories (Bamboo Ridge, Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts)
Lee Catauna was born on Maui and raised in plantation houses in Wailuku Koloa and Kau. After working ten years in local television and radio she became a columnist for The Honolulu Advertiser in 2000. She is a 2004 warmer of the Cades Award for Literature for her body of work, and served as the 2004 - 2005 Keables Chair at lolani School. Her favorite stories, fiction and non-fiction, are about ordinary people struggling to live lives of dignity and purpose.