Keala Kendall is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of How Far I’ll Go and Nobody Gets Left Behind in Disney’s A Twisted Tale series. Her groundbreaking young adult horror debut, That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic, was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Hapa Native Hawaiian, she is a cofounder of Pacific Islanders in Publishing and a past organizer of the Books for Maui charity auction. Born in Honolulu, raised on Molokaʻi, she now lives as part of the Native Hawaiian diaspora in Los Angeles.

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