Waimea Williams is the author of Aloha, Mozart (Luminis Books), which won the 2013 Excellence Award from the Hawaii Publishers Assn. for a novel about Hawaii published outside the islands. The 2014 edition of Crab Orchard Review (The West Coast and Beyond) features her essay “Sacred Valley, Modern Times.” In 2012 she won The Chariton Review’s first prize for a short story; an essay about her home island of Kauai appeared in Cirque, and Island Heritage published her book on cultural practices, Aloha for the Heart and Soul. She is also the author of a memoir about growing up in the Territory of Hawaii. Waimea Williams first attended Squaw Valley in 1989 and returned often, more recently on the staff. She passed away in March of 2015.