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Joy Uyeno graduated from Emerson's Publishing and Writing program earlier this year, and is currently expanding her freelance writing career. She has written a guest post for us about her inclusion in a recent anthology of writing about Honolulu, Hawaii.

I write a small travel column for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the newspaper from my home state, and when my editor wrote to let me know that the people at Mutual Publishing were trying to figure out how to get in touch with me I assumed it was about the column. It actually turned out that they wanted to use a short story that I'd written while at the University of Hawaii Manoa for a new anthology about Honolulu—the newspaper just acted as a convenient means of tracking me down. The short story was a somewhat vague memory, but I was thrilled to be included, so I said yes.

Besides being sold as a trade publication, the anthology—Honolulu Stories—was also meant to be used in Hawaii's classrooms. This excited me because I had briefly taught high school English in Hawaii and there didn't seem to be a single resource from which the students could see the range of our home state reflected. The anthology would be a fantastic opportunity for a vast variety of local literary voices to be sampled.