National Geographic Traveler: Hawaii, 5th Edition

About the Author

• RITA ARIYOSHI is the author of Maui on My Mind and Hula is Life. She served for 10 years as editor of Aloha Magazine. Her travel articles, fiction, and memoirs have appeared in a variety of international magazines and literary journals, including National Geographic Traveler. She is a five-time first-place winner of the prestigious Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Her stories have been commended by the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, the Pacific Asia Travel Association, the Hawaii Publishers Association, and the National Catholic Press Association. She is a grand prize-winner in the annual National Steinbeck Center Short Story Competition, and recipient of the Pushcart Prize for Literature. Ariyoshi's work has been collected in anthologies and made into television productions. A short story about Molakai won the University of Hawaii 2011 Ian MacMillan competition and a novel in progress was a finalist for the 2011 James Jones Literary Fellowship. She lives in Honolulu with her family.
• Hawaii-born journalist THELMA CHANG updated and wrote new features for the 2009 edition.