 Wright has ventured into the genre of creative nonfiction in 2019 with "The Queen of Moloka'i", which explores the teenage years of his part-Hawaiian grandmother and documents the Wright family saga in the islands.Wright's work is primarily concerned with the complexities of multicultural Hawaii, Killahaole Day, prejudices against (and within) island high schools, and the tricky matter of interracial dating.He incorporates the local creole language into his novels and was the first author to document the pidgin English spoken by the paniolo cowboys on the east end of Molokai.