Megan Kakimoto is an AAPI writer based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 and is currently a Fiction Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Boulevard, Conjunctions, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She also serves as an associate editor for Bat City Review. In addition to receiving the Ramblr Fiction Award, her work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.