Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is the Japanese and Kānaka ʻŌiwi author of Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare, a USA Today bestseller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2025 Elliot Cades Award for Literature from the Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council. In 2026, she served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles and Honolulu Community College.

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