Author Profiles:

Essay by Christopher R. Kelsey

Rodney Morales is the author of When the Shark Bites, a novel published by University of Hawai‘i Press in 2002, and The Speed of Darkness, a short story collection published in 1988 by Bamboo Ridge Press. He is also the editor of Ho‘iHo‘i Hou: A Tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell (Bamboo Ridge Press, 1984), for which he received the Lawrence Brown Award.

His stories have been published in numerous journals, and anthologized in Rereading America (Bedford-St. Martins, 1992) and Growing Up Puerto Rican (William Morrow, 1997). He is a two-time Grand Prize winner of the Honolulu magazine fiction contest.