DON MITCHELL is an anthropologist-writer, born and raised in Hilo, Hawai'i (where he graduated from a public high school -- in Hawai'i, that's important). He has published academic works, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and both published and exhibited photographs. He splits his time between rural Western New York and Hilo, Hawai'i, and is working on a novel set on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, where he did fieldwork. He lives happily with his college girlfriend, a poet and yoga teacher, whom he lost for forty years but, lucky for him, finally found.