Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (born May 6, 1993) is a Japanese and Kanaka Maoli author. 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] and a Best Book of 2023 by Powells Books.[4] The collection consists of eleven short stories that interweave Hawaiian mythology and superstition into a surreal contemporary Hawaiian vision.[5][6] She is the Fiction Editor for No Tokens Journal,[7] and a faculty member at Antioch University's MFA Program.[8]
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto | |
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| Born | May 6, 1993 Honolulu, Hawai'i |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Michener Center for Writers (MFA)
Kamehameha Schools |
| Genre | Fiction |
Education
editKakimoto graduated from Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawai'i, earned a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and an M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. Notable Alumni
Awards and honors
editHer fiction has been featured in Granta, Conjunctions, Joyland, and Electric Literature, among others. She was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature and has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work has been called "a reset for Hawai‘i literature" in Honolulu Magazine.[9] She has essays published in The Guardian,[10] Literary Hub,[11] and elsewhere.
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- Bloodsick Bloomsbury (forthcoming)
Short story collections
editSelected stories in literary journals
edit- "Touch Me Like One of Your Island Girls: A Love Story" Granta (Winter 2022)
- "Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare" Joyland (Spring 2021)
- "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
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "Best Books of 2023: Fiction". Powells Books. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ "Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto — nb. Magazine". nb. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ^ "Review: Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare". The Common. 2023-08-28. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ^ "Masthead". No Tokens. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
- ^ "MFA Program Directory". Antioch University. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ^ "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.