Island organic

As a creative nonfiction project, Island Organic is a hybrid of the genre, a collection of autobiographical essays and profiles of some of Hawaii’s most amazing people and places. The goal was to reveal each person’s contribution to the social fabric of Hawaii, depicting his or her unique relationship with the islands and how meeting them influenced the evolution of my own. While much creative nonfiction has been written about Hawaii and its surfing community, much of it glosses over the serious social, environmental, and political issues unfolding there. Few writers, let alone surfers, have written about America’s current role in the Hawaiian Islands as an example of neo-colonialist authoritarianism.