Sia Figiel's novel Where We Once Belonged won the 1995 Commonwealth Literary Prize for First Book in the Asia-Pacific Region. A second novel, Girls in the Moon Circle, was published by Mana Press in 1996. Originally from Samoa, Figiel has been a writer-in-residence at the University of South Pacific, in Suva, Fiji, and at the East-West Center in Honolulu. real audio and mp3 of reading at Myth, Terrorism, and Justice real audio of reading at Island Writing