Beau Flemister

BEAU FLEMISTER is an award-winning writer from Kailua, Hawai‘i. After graduating from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, he worked in the valet parking industry on O‘ahu for eight years, taught creative writing to high school students at a renowned private prep school, and traveled the world extensively (off valet tips), reporting for publications along the way. A former editor at Surfing Magazine, he has been published in VICE, Complex, Outside, FLUX, The Surfers Journal, and Hana Hou! magazines, among others. His journalism and travel writing has covered stories from indentured sex workers in Paris to a hidden sovereign nation-state within Hawai‘i; from being attacked by bears in Nepal to camping with nomadic tribes in Mongolia. He resides with his exquisite wife, Rachel, in Waimanalo, Hawai‘i.