Constance Hale is a San Francisco–based journalist probably best known for her books on language and literary style, including the best-selling Sin and Syntax, and her New York Times columns on the subject. But she’s also been writing about Hawaiian culture for more than twenty-five years, with award-winning features on hula, slack-key guitar, the sovereignty movement, the Hawaiian language, Big Island cowboys, and Spam musubi in the Atlantic, National Geographic Adventure, and Smithsonian, to name a few.