Artist in Residence at Kahuku: Author Leah Newsom
Artist in Residence at Kahuku - Author Leah Newsom
Award-winning writer Leah Newsom is the National Park Arts Foundation Artist in Residence for June 2024. From Phoenix, Arizona, she holds an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University and is a creative writing instructor there. She has been featured in publications such as Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, Juked, and Passages North, and has also received the Virginia G. Piper Global Residency Fellowship
She will talk about her creative process and her forthcoming novel, which addresses contemporary issues, including health tourism, colonialism, climate change, and ecological crises. She poses profound questions about healing – both individual and communal – and envisions pathways toward reconciliation with the Earth.
This section of the park is located an hour's drive from Kīlauea Visitor Center. Enter the Kahuku Unit of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the ma uka (uphill) side of Highway 11 near mile marker 70.5.
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Kahuku Unit
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Interpretation and Education
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