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Kimo Armitage

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Kimo Armitage is a poet, children's book author,[1] playwright and videographer[2] from Hale'iwa, O'ahu, where his maternal grandparents raised him.[3] Kimo apprenticed with poet and novelist Albert Wendt. He is an assistant professor at Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He won the 2016 Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award for Poetry.[3] His first novel, The Healer, was published in 2016.[3]

Works

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  • The Healer – 2016

References

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  1. ^ WorldCat author listing
  2. ^ Wendt, Albert; Whaitiri, Reina; Sullivan, Robert, eds. (September 2010). Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Auckland: Auckland UP. ISBN 9781869404482.
  3. ^ a b c Tanigawa, Noe (19 May 2016). "Kimo Armitage Local Storyteller Makes Good!". Hawaiʻi Public Radio. Retrieved 19 July 2020.