CALL LATELY / Brandy Nālani McDougall

Brandy Nālani McDougall named 2023–25 Hawaiʻi State Poet Laureate

McDougall is an associate professor of Indigenous studies in the Department of American Studies, and the director of the Mānoa Center for Humanities and Civic Engagement. Her first poetry collection, The Salt-Wind, Ka Makani Paʻakai was published in 2008 and her second poetry collection, ʻĀina Hānau, Birth Land is forthcoming in summer 2023.