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A native of Hawai'i, Jean Yamasaki Toyama is a Beckett scholar and professor emerita of French at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She has published two books of poems, Kelli's Hanauma Friends, illustrated with paintings by local artist Russell Sunabe, and another, Prepositions, with paintings by Cora Yee. Her short stories appear in The Piano Tuner's Wife. She was awarded the Cades Award for emerging artist in 2018 and is one of the renshi poets awarded the Ka Palapala Po'okela Excellence in Literature, honorable mention, for What We Must Remember, in 2019. Her work often appears in Bamboo Ridge.
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