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At this intimate Live from the Atherton event, Brandy Nālani McDougall and Kai Gaspar will use their creative works as a springboard to talk about joy, artistic inspirations, creative processes, and more. The pair are also eager to engage with those in attendance through Q & A.
Kai and Brandy often refer to themselves as "literary siblings," both being country kids who moved to the city (Honolulu) where they studied and worked together under the tutelage of poet and writer Albert Wendt. Kai's book 
Ulu 
and Brandy's most recent book 
'Āina Hanau, Birth Land 
were both published in 2023 and the two were recently praised in the same New York Times article. This event offers the opportunity to engage with the poetics of Hawaiʻi’s past and present.
All Live from the Atherton events are filmed, recorded and photographed for future broadcasts and online content.
About Kai Gaspar:
Kai Gaspar is a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi poet and teacher whose works have been published in Mauri Ola Contemporary Poems in English / Whetu Moana II, Hawai‘i Review, Tinfish, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere. Kai learned to read by kerosene lamps on the shore of Hōnaunau, graduated from Kapi‘olani Community College, then earned a PhD at UH Mānoa. Ulu is Kai’s full-length debut. Kai was recently profiled by FLUX Hawai'i, Honolulu Magazine, and THRoB (The Hawai'i Review of Books).
About Brandy Nālani McDougall:
From the ahupuaʻa of Aʻapueo in Kula, Maui, Brandy Nālani McDougall (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, she/her/ʻo ia) is the author of two poetry collections, The Salt-Wind, Ka Makani Paʻakai (2008) and ʻĀina Hānau, Birth Land (2023). A Ford and Mellon-Hawaiʻi fellow, her critical monograph Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2016) is the first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature and was the winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award in 2017. She is the director of the Mānoa Center for Humanities and Civic Engagement and an Associate Professor of American Studies (specializing in Indigenous studies) at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is the Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate for 2023–2025. She lives with her keiki in Kalaepōhaku, Honolulu, in the ahupuaʻa of Waikīkī on Oʻahu.
Live From the Atherto
n is Hawai‘i Public Radio’s new flagship multimedia series, featuring music performances, authors and other creative, original thinkers at our Atherton Studio. Throughout 2025, Hawai'i Public Radio will host ticketed events that feature a range of music, from Hawaiian, classical, jazz and indie, as well as authors and speakers across genres including fiction, young adult, keiki and Hawaiian history.
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The Live from the Atherton Author Series takes place on select Thursday evenings at the Atherton Performing Arts studio at Hawaiʻi Public Radio. The author series events begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Doors open thirty minutes before the event starts.
This event will be filmed, recorded and photographed. Your presence constitutes your release of all rights to your recorded voice and image, which may be used in projects by Hawaiʻi Public Radio.
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Parking: Street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood (metered parking is free after 6 p.m.).
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