Her latest novel, Light From Uncommon Stars, was an Alex, SCKA, and Otherwise Award winner, and. She has an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University, and is currently a professor of English at Santa Monica College. RYKA AOKI (she/her) is a poet, composer, teacher, and novelist. She was also honored to work with the American Association of Hiroshima Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors, where two of her compositions were adopted as the organization’s “songs of peace.” She has been recognized by the California State Senate for “extraordinary commitment to the visibility and well-being of Transgender people,” and her work has appeared or been recognized in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bustle, Autostraddle, PopSugar, and Buzzfeed, as well as the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. As vivid and unflinching as they are lyrical, these words deliver and demand sparkling truth even as they speak of violence, longing and love.

Ryka is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist for her collections Seasonal Velocities, and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul, and her first novel, He Mele a Hilo, was callled one of the '10 Best Books Set in Hawaii' by Bookriot. With her characteristic honesty and a powerful, fierce grace, Ryka Aoki carries us through fear in the dark, the half-lives of scars, home, and hope. List Price: 18.99 Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. Tue 2:00pm 1 Favorite + The lives of three womenKatrina, Shizuka, and Lanbecome entangled by chance and fate in Ryka Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly.

Light from Uncommon Stars 17.26 Save 1.73. Her latest novel, Light From Uncommon Stars, was an Alex, SCKA, and Otherwise Award winner, and was also a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte Awards. Light from Uncommon Stars 1250789087 Book Cover. Healdsburg Brown Bag Book Club: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Primary tabs Program Description Contact Info About Sonoma County Library Library. RYKA AOKI (she/her) is a poet, composer, teacher, and novelist.

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