Brandy Nālani McDougall

Born and raised on Maui in the ahupuaʻa of Aʻapueo, Brandy Nālani McDougall is a poet, scholar, educator, mother, and aloha ʻāina. She is the author of The Salt-Wind, Ka Makani Paʻakai (Kuleana 'Ōiwi Press 2008) and ʻĀina Hānau, Birth Land, which will be released by the University of Arizona Press in June 2023. She is the Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate for 2023-2025, director of the Mānoa Center for the Humanities and Civic Engagement, and an associate professor of Indigenous Studies in the American Studies Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She lives with her children in Kalaepōhaku, Oʻahu.