Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

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, an instant USA Today National Bestseller, named an Indies Introduce title and a September Indie Next pick by the American Booksellers Association, and a Best Book of 2023 by Powells Books. The collection consists of eleven short stories about Hawaiian women. She is the Fiction Editor for No Tokens Journal, and a faculty member at Antioch University's MFA Program.

Education
Kakimoto 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.

Awards and honors
Her 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. She has essays published in The Guardian, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.

Novels

 * Bloodsick Bloomsbury (forthcoming)

Short story collections

 * Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare Bloomsbury (2023)

Selected stories in literary journals

 * "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)