Kawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai’i. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, Mid-American Review, and Barrelhouse; he has also written commentary for Flavorwire and book reviews for Publisher’s Weekly. He was selected as a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. He lives with his wife and daughter in the DC area and is hard at work on a novel and short story collection. In addition to his work as a writer, he has been a web developer, systems administrator, software engineer, microfinance analyst, and english/math/computer science teacher; he has lived, worked and traveled all over the world, including Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Ghana, Liberia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Colombia, and Brazil.
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