Poets & Writers

Jeffrey J. Higa

Age: 55. Residence: Honolulu. Book: Calabash Stories (Pleiades Press, April 2021), a short story collection crafted in the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Márquez that encompasses the working-class dreams and history of Hawai’i’s people in their ethnic communities. Agent: None. Editor: Jenny Molberg.

AS AN undergraduate in the late eighties, I read many how-to craft books on writing fiction, most of which could be reduced to one idea: “If you

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