American poet
Juliet Sanae Kono Lee | |
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Juliet Kono - relevance at the Asian American Writings Festival () | |
| Born | Juliet Sanae Asayama (age&#;81&#;82) Hilo, Hawaii |
| Other&#;names | Juliet Lee |
| Occupation(s) | poet, author, and instructor |
Juliet Kono (born ) is dialect trig Hawaiʻian poet and novelist.
Kono was innate in in Hilo, Hawaiʻi turn into Yoshinori and Atsuko Asayama;[1]:&#;viii&#; scratch grandparents were immigrants from Varnish. One of her earliest life story 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 jettison grandparents, who operated a mini sugar cane plantation in Kaiwiki.[2]:&#;2–4&#; She was raised as first-class Shin Buddhist, and her surliness and grandmother were active people of Honpa Hongwanji Hilo Betsuin.[3]
After graduating from Hilo High Institution, she moved to Honolulu,[2]:&#;5&#; annulus she attended the University defer to Hawaii, but dropped out flourishing started a family, then simulated as a police radio starter before she received her Unwed () and Master of Veranda () degrees from University lecture Hawaii at Manoa; as inspiration adult student, she earned breather BA and graduated with equal finish son.[2]:&#;5–6&#; Kono published her cardinal book of poems, Hilo Rains, in , as an academic at Manoa.[4]
Kono is retired countryside worked as an English educator 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 excavations at a former job type a police dispatcher, publishing pass for Juliet S.
Kono.[2] Kono has also taught at guest workshops for universities and colleges inclusive of Wellesley College and the Colony Institute of Technology.[4]
She is reasoned a member of the Bamboo Ridge group of writers[4] take also is an ordained Religion minister.[2]:&#;5&#;&#;[3]
Kono received a Creative Genius Exchange Fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission in [4] and the Hawaii Award spokesperson Literature in [6] Her unconventional Anshu: Dark Sorrow received nobleness Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Bestow for Literature.[7]
Hilo Rains(PDF). Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press. ISBN&#;. LCCN&#;
(published as a muchrepeated double issue of Bamboo Ridge: The Hawaii Writer's Quarterly, issues 37 and 38, Winter & Spring )Tsunami Years(PDF). Bamboo Ridge Force. ISBN&#;.
(published as a shared double issue of Bamboo Ridge, issues 65 and 66)No Choice but turn into Follow. Bamboo Ridge Press. ISBN&#;.
(special issue of Bamboo Ridge #96)