kakimoto

USA Today Bestseller

From major new storytelling talent Megan KamaleiKakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. ＂A knockout. Eleven knockouts, one KO for every story.＂-Elizabeth McCracken

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is a Japanese and Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) writer from Honolulu, Hawai’i. She has been a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature and has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, where she was a Fiction Fellow. She lives in Honolulu.