World Literary Awards

← Back to Home

Noʻu Revilla

ノウ・レヴィラ

No'u Revilla

Pen Names: Noʻu Revilla（Used as primary byline for poetry and scholarship）

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Waihee-Waiehu, Maui, Hawaii, USA
Nationality
United States, Native Hawaiian
Languages
English, Hawaiian
Residence History
Waihee-Waiehu, Maui, Hawaii → Mānoa, Honolulu, Oʻahu (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) → New York City (studies)

Career

Occupations
poet, educator, scholar, university professor (creative writing)
Active Years
2010-2025
Affiliations
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of English
Influenced By
Haunani-Kay Trask

Education

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Department of English (Creative Writing)
Degree: PhD（創作文学）
Country: United States
PhD in Creative Writing (year unknown)
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
English (Cultural Studies concentration)
Degree: M.A.（英語）
Country: United States
M.A. in English with a concentration in Cultural Studies
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Women's Studies
Degree: B.A.
Country: United States
B.A. in Women's Studies (year unknown)

Awards

National Poetry Series
2021
Work: Ask the Brindled
Organization: National Poetry Series
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Say Throne

2011 Poetry (chapbook)

A 2011 chapbook published by TinFish Press, noted for poems that meld sex and sovereignty.

sexsovereigntyanti-colonial critique

Permission to Make Digging Sounds (in Effigies III)

2019 Poetry (anthology)

Included in Salt Publishing's Effigies III (2019), part of an anthology of Pacific islander women poets exploring culture, genealogy, and environment.

culturegenealogyenvironment

Ask the Brindled

2022 Poetry (full-length collection)

A full-length collection that interweaves Native Hawaiian perspective with queer, decolonial critique. Selected by Rick Barot as the 2021 National Poetry Series winner and published by Milkweed Editions in 2022. Critics note its fluidity between English and Hawaiian and its embodied political poetics.

decolonizationqueerAloha ʻĀina (land-centered love)family and genealogy

Bibliography

  • Say Throne (TinFish Press, 2011)
  • Permission to Make Digging Sounds (Effigies III, Salt Publishing, 2019)
  • Ask the Brindled (Milkweed Editions, 2022)
  • Various poems and essays (selected works 2016–2023)

Translations by Author

  • A Chant for Kekalukaluokēwā (translation, 2019)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
code-switching between English and Hawaiianvisceral, body-centered imageryqueer and decolonial perspectivecollaborative practice informed by aloha and gratitude
Recurring Motifs
Aloha ʻĀina (land-centered love)genealogy and intergenerational memorywater and the seabody and sexualitysovereignty and resistance

Legacy

Noʻu Revilla is recognized as an important contemporary poetic voice that links Native Hawaiian perspective with queer poetics. Through teaching, scholarly contributions, workshops, and activism, Revilla advances decolonial conversations and relationships to land.

Academic Societies

  • Critical Ethnic Studies Association (associated)

Archives

  • Noʻu Revilla archives (related National Poetry Series materials)

In Popular Culture

  • Poetry performances and workshops in Hawaiʻi and participation in Indigenous rights and environmental movements

Quotes

  • Throughout Ask the Brindled, the conflation of the intimate and the political, and an embodied queer, decolonial critique is powerfully manifest in the poems’ fluidity between English and the Hawaiian language.
    Source: Review in Poetry Foundation (Heather Green) (2022)

Trivia

  • Year of birth is not publicly specified (category: Year of birth missing)
  • Ask the Brindled was selected for the 2021 National Poetry Series and published in 2022