Kimo Armitage


Kimo Armitage is a poet, best-selling children's book author, playwright and videographer, is from Hale'iwa, O'ahu, where his maternal grandparents raised him. Kimo apprentices with esteemed 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. His first novel, The Healer, was published in 2016.

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