Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
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| Born | May 6, 1993 Honolulu, Hawai'i. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Michener Center for Writers (MFA)
Dartmouth College (BA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (born May 6, 1993) is a Japanese and Kanaka Maoli author from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She is the author of the story collection Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare[1], an instant USA Today National Bestseller[2], named an Indies Introduce title and a September Indie Next pick by the American Booksellers Association[3]. She is Fiction Editor for No Tokens Journal.[4]
Life and career
She was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, graduated from Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawai'i, earned a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, an M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.
Awards and honors
Her work has been called "a reset for Hawai‘i literature" in Honolulu Magazine.[5] She has essays published in The Guardian,[6], Literary Hub,[7] and elsewhere.
Bibliography
Novels
- Bloodsick Bloomsbury (forthcoming)
Short Story Collections
- Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare[8] Bloomsbury (2023)
Selected Stories in Literary Journals
- "Touch Me Like One of Your Island Girls: A Love Story" Granta (Winter 2022)
- "Leaving Cynthia" Conjunctions (Spring 2021)
- "Baby's First Lūʻau"" Boulevard (Spring 2021)
- "Madwomen" Southern Humanities Review (Winter 2020)
- ""Temporary Dwellers" Qu Literary Magazine (Spring 2019)
References
- ↑ "Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "USA Today's Best-selling Booklist". USA Today. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "Indies Introduce". American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "Masthead". No Tokens. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's Debut Book Has the Literary World Buzzing". Honolulu Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "'Our Hawaiian stories are not meant to be easy for you': Megan Kamalei Kakimoto on telling her ancestral tales". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "Megan Kamalei Kakimoto On The Many Ways To Tell a Hawaiian Story". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ↑ "Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
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