Nina Macheel is an emerging writer. Her short story ‘Minjekawan Mittens’ is included in the Spring 2019 Midwest Literary Review. She posts short personal essays biweekly on her blog PomegranateRed. She is nearing completion of a book-length memoir/personal essay about the ways her family’s South Pacific Island cultural experience and identity evolved after intermarriage with Chinese migrant labourers in the mid-19th Century.