Books

In 2000-2004, I studied at Ripton, VT., Juneau, AK., Santa Fe, NM., and Oxford University, England – campuses of the Bread Loaf School of English Masters program in English/Middlebury College. I received my diploma at Lincoln College, Oxford University in 2004.

I facilitated memoir writing workshops at VITEC-UHMaui campus in 2002 and then at Maui’s Kaunoa Leisure Living Senior Center in Spreckelsville until 2015 when I moved to Northern Nevada. More than a dozen writers have published their memoirs since then.

Spirit of the Village A Maui Memoir – My story of growing up in a Filipino sugar plantation neighborhood during the 50s. Available at amazon.com, Maui’s Sugar Mill Museum Gift Shop, Maui Friends of the Library, all Hawai`i State Libraries and community colleges, or contact jpiascarlin@gmail.com for a signed copy. Published in 2004 by Write On Maui Publishing.

Aunty’s Place – A fiction that takes place in the coastal town, Kihei, on the island of Maui during the 60s when tall buildings and multitudes of tourists were practically nonexistent. Aunty Lani Anela tells her story with the islands’ official language, Hawaiian Pidgin. Available at amazon.com, Maui Friends of the Library, Hawai`i State Libraries, or contact jpiascarlin@gmail.com for a signed copy. Published in 2019 by Write On Maui Publishing.

2024- The Arrivals – Historical fiction based on several diaries of Christian missionaries, a ship’s captain, Hawaiian history books, and documents. Beginning from the ocean voyage from New England to Hawai`i in the 1800s, “The Arrivals” tells the fate of Hawai`i through adventure, innocence, conflicting beliefs, female prowess, interracial romance, and unforeseen changes. Hawaiian ancestral spirits also tell their story and web their experiences with the living–when they’re able to connect. The Arrivals is completed and weaving through the publication process.