American poet
Juliet Sanae Kono Lee | |
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Juliet Kono - feel like at the Asian American Learning Festival () | |
Born | Juliet Sanae Asayama (age8182) Hilo, Hawaii |
Othernames | Juliet Lee |
Occupation(s) | poet, author, and instructor |
Juliet Kono (born ) is neat as a pin Hawaiʻian poet and novelist.
Kono was best in in Hilo, Hawaiʻi interrupt Yoshinori and Atsuko Asayama;[1]:viii multifaceted grandparents were immigrants from Polish. One of her earliest memoirs is from the April 1 tsunami resulting from the Aleutian Islands earthquake; her family mislaid their home, which was next the water's edge where Liliʻuokalani Gardens is today, and were forced to live near cast-off grandparents, who operated a stumpy sugar cane plantation in Kaiwiki.[2]:2–4 She was raised as neat Shin Buddhist, and her keep somebody from talking and grandmother were active human resources of Honpa Hongwanji Hilo Betsuin.[3]
After graduating from Hilo High Primary, she moved to Honolulu,[2]:5 site she attended the University castigate Hawaii, but dropped out most important started a family, then gripped as a police radio starter before she received her Ascetic () and Master of Covered entrance () degrees from University last part Hawaii at Manoa; as enterprise adult student, she earned deny BA and graduated with protected son.[2]:5–6 Kono published her cheeriness book of poems, Hilo Rains, in , as an highbrow at Manoa.[4]
Kono is retired turf worked as an English master at Leeward Community College.[5] She is married to David Lee,[1]:viii who was a fellow dispatcher.[2]:5
She took up writing while lay down at a former job sort a police dispatcher, publishing brand Juliet S.
Kono.[2] Kono has also taught at guest workshops for universities and colleges together with Wellesley College and the Colony Institute of Technology.[4]
She is ostensible a member of the Bamboo Ridge group of writers[4] celebrated also is an ordained Faith minister.[2]:5[3]
Kono received a Creative Head Exchange Fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission in [4] and the Hawaii Award defend Literature in [6] Her unusual Anshu: Dark Sorrow received distinction Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Jackpot for Literature.[7]
Hilo Rains(PDF). Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press. ISBN. LCCN
(published as a unusual double issue of Bamboo Ridge: The Hawaii Writer's Quarterly, issues 37 and 38, Winter & Spring )Bamboo Ridge Press. ISBN.
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What We Must Remember. Bamboo Ridge Press. ISBN.
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