Constance Hale
Constance Hale was born and raised in Hawaii, but left the islands for college. She has been traveling ever since, and has written about journeys to Delhi, Paris, San Francisco, and Savannah for the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Dallas Morning News, and the Honolulu Advertiser. Her personal essays have been selected for anthologies like Provence (Travelers’ Tales); Italy, A Love Story (Seal Press); and Best Travel Writing 2006 (Travelers’ Tales).
Hawaii remains her favorite subject, though. Her article about bringing the ancient Hawaiian language into the 21st century by hook, line, or soundbite was published in Wired; her story on the cowboys of the Big Island ran in National Geographic Adventure; her piece on hula made the Atlantic Monthly; and her paeon to poi was published in Via.
Hale has been an editor at the San Francisco Examiner, Wired, and Health magazines, and edits books for Harvard Business School Press and private clients. She speaks frequently on the mysteries of language and the magic of prose. Her two subversive books on writing, Wired Style and Sin and Syntax, have gotten her dubbed “Marion the Librarian on a Harley, or E. B. White on acid.”