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Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a three-time national poetry champion and acclaimed writer.  A Kānaka Maoli wahine artist and activist, she has a Ph.D. in English Hawaiian literature from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, where she is now Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics. She is the author of the groundbreaking book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina and a featured author in IMUA, Go Forward, a Pacific University Press boo

Imua, Go Forward is an anthology of poetry Malia Guerrero created as a letter of love to the young people of Hawai’i. Growing up on Oahu, she did not see herself or many of the kids in her classes reflected in their assigned readings for their English classes. As an interning editor and writer at Pacific University Press, Malia set out to address the problem by creating IMUA.

In this new Pacific University magazine, professors, interns, and students travel to in Greve-in Chianti, Italy to interview and observe local artisans and cultural takers. A complex community reveals itself when these writers slow down and listen.