Juliet Kono

Juliet Kono, married to David Lee and writes as Juliet S. Kono, is a Hawaii poet and novelist. A former police dispatcher who took up writing while on the job,[1] she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa before becoming an instructor in English at Leeward Community College. She has also done guest workshops at universities and colleges like Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]

Juliet Kono - reading at the Asian American Literature Festival

Kono received a Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission in 1998[2] and the Hawaii Award for Literature in 2005.[3] She is considered a member of the Bamboo Ridge group of writers[2] and also serves as a Buddhist priest.[4] Her novel Anshu: Dark Sorrow received the 2011 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Award for Literature.[5]

Bibliography
  • Hilo Rains (1988)
  • Sister Stew: Poetry and Fiction by Women (1991) (with Cathy Song)
  • Tsunami Years (1995)
  • How the Ocean Fooled Us (1997) (with Emi Fukawa)
  • A Day on the Cyclo (2000)
  • The Pancake Place (2000)
  • Ho'olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile, and Other Stories (2004)
  • The Bravest Opihi (2005)
  • Anshu: Dark Sorrow (2010)

References
  1. Wilcox, Leslie (July 12, 2011). "Interview with author Juliet S. Kono" (PDF). PBS Hawaii. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  2. Huang, Guiyou (2002). Asian-American Poets: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 173. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  3. "Recipients of Past Hawai'i Awards for Literature". Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. May 15, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  4. Staff report (2010). "Interview with author Juliet S. Kono". Bamboo Ridge Press. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  5. Staff report (May 15, 2011). "Juliet Kono's 'Anshu' captures Po'okela award for literature". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
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