NOELANI PITERS

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Noelani Piters is a writer living in San Francisco, on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. She was a 2023 Moloka‘i Arts Center Artist in Residence and has received support from Disquiet, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Kearny Street Workshop. Her work has been published in swamp pink, Reed Magazine, and Pleiades, and she has contributed to The Rumpus and SOMA Magazine. She is the former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Ignatian Literary Magazine and hosts the quarterly Bay Area write-in Coffee at the Museum.

Noelani’s writing is an excavation of identity, particularly in the context of diaspora and cultural multiplicity. Through poetry and prose, she explores the interconnectivity of place, heritage, food, belonging, mixedness, familial structures, oral storytelling, and other-ing, and how these concepts influence, fragment, and complicate one’s sense of self. She is fascinated by personal anecdotes that feel like myths, how aesthetics shape our emotions (and vice versa), and the invisible threads that tie us all together.

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