Poetry. Jacinta Galea'i has written a "novel" that is also a sequence of "poems," calling her genres into question at every turn. She has written a book in English and Samoan, one that straddles geographic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. Aching for Mango Friends offers up a part of this (as yet unpublished) novel/poem to readers interested in experimental writing, writing from the Pacific, and intersections between Samoa and the USA. Jacinta S. Galea'i was born in American Samoa and grew up in the Pacific Northwest and Samoa. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Hawai'i. Currently, she directs the University of Hawai'i-Manoa GEAR UP Project, which aims to improve the college-bound rates of under-represented students in Hawai'i. Her work can be found in CHAIN, BAMBOO RIDGE, TINFISH, and Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of Waka.