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Kirby Wright
was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
He is a graduate of Punahou School in
Honolulu and the University of California at
San Diego. He received
his MFA in Creative Writing from San
Francisco State University.
Wright has been nominated for two
Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of
the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of
American Poets Award, the Browning Society
Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts
Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry
and The Novel. BEFORE
THE CITY, his first book of poetry, took
First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book
Awards. Wright is also
the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU
BLUES and MOLOKA’I NUI AHINA, both set in
Hawaii. He was a
Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International
Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he
represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii
and lectured with Pulitzer Prize winner Gary
Snyder.
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