:Juliet Kono

Kono was born in 1943 in Hilo, Hawai{{okina}}i to Yoshinori and Atsuko Asayama;{{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |title=Hilo Rains |year=1988 |url=http://praise.lib3.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10790/5187/4/Hilo%20Rains.pdf |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |location=Honolulu |isbn=978-0-910043-15-1 |lccn=88-24236}}{{rp|viii}} her grandparents were immigrants from Japan. One of her earliest memories is from the April 1 tsunami resulting from the 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake; her family lost their home, which was near the water's edge where Lili{{okina}}uokalani Gardens is today, and were forced to live near her grandparents, who operated a small sugar cane plantation in Kaiwiki.{{rp|2–4}} She was raised as a Shin Buddhist, and her mother and grandmother were active members of Honpa Hongwanji Hilo Betsuin.

After graduating from Hilo High School, she moved to Honolulu,{{rp|5}} where she attended the University of Hawaii, but dropped out and started a family, then worked as a police radio dispatcher before she received her Bachelor (1988) and Master of Arts (1990) degrees from University of Hawaii at Manoa; as an adult student, she earned her BA and graduated with her son.{{rp|5–6}} Kono published her first book of poems, Hilo Rains, in 1988, as an undergraduate at Manoa.

Kono is retired and worked as an English instructor at Leeward Community College.{{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/juliet-kono |title=Juliet Kono |publisher=Poetry Foundation |access-date=8 June 2021}} She is married to David Lee,{{rp|viii}} who was a fellow dispatcher.{{rp|5}}

She took up writing while working at a former job as a police dispatcher, publishing as Juliet S. Kono.{{cite interview |url=http://www.pbshawaii.org/ourproductions/longstory_transcripts/LSS%20424%20Transcript%20-%20Juliet%20Lee.pdf|title=Interview with author Juliet S. Kono |work=Long Story Short |subject=Juliet Lee |interviewer=Leslie Wilcox |date=July 12, 2011|publisher=PBS Hawaii|accessdate=2014-02-02}} Kono has also taught at guest workshops for universities and colleges including Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwEtBiiphOoC&pg=PA173 |title=Asian-American Poets: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook |author=Huot, Nikolas |editor=Huang, Guiyou|year=2002 |pages=173–176 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|accessdate=2014-02-02 |isbn=0-313-31809-3}}

She is considered a member of the Bamboo Ridge group of writers and also is an ordained Buddhist minister.{{rp|5}} {{cite interview |url=http://www.bambooridge.com/feature.aspx?fid=171 |title=Interview with author Juliet S. Kono |subject=Juliet S. Kono |interviewer=Staff report |year=2010 |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |accessdate=2014-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905112643/http://www.bambooridge.com/feature.aspx?fid=171 |archive-date=September 5, 2010 |url-status=dead}}

Kono received a Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission in 1998 and the Hawaii Award for Literature in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://hawaii.gov/sfca/literature.html|title=Recipients of Past Hawai'i Awards for Literature|date=May 15, 2014|publisher=Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts|accessdate=2014-02-02}} Her novel Anshu: Dark Sorrow received the 2011 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Award for Literature.{{cite web|url=http://www.staradvertiser.com/features/20110515_Juliet_Konos_Anshu_captures_Pookela_award_for_literature_.html|title=Juliet Kono's 'Anshu' captures Po'okela award for literature|last=Staff report|date=May 15, 2011|website=|publisher=Honolulu Star-Advertiser|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=2014-02-02}}

• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |title=Hilo Rains |year=1988 |url=http://praise.lib3.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10790/5187/4/Hilo%20Rains.pdf |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |location=Honolulu |isbn=978-0-910043-15-1 |lccn=88-24236}} (published as a special double issue of Bamboo Ridge: The Hawaii Writer's Quarterly, issues 37 and 38, Winter & Spring 1988)
• {{cite book |editor1=Kono, Juliet S. |editor2=Song, Cathy |editor2-link=Cathy Song |title=Sister Stew: Poetry and Fiction by Women |year=1991 |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |isbn=0-910043-22-1}}
• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |title=Tsunami Years |year=1995 |url=http://praise.lib3.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10790/5274/Tsunami%20Years.pdf |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |isbn=0-910043-35-3}} (published as a special double issue of Bamboo Ridge, issues 65 and 66)
• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |title=Ho{{okina}}olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile, and Other Stories |year=2004 |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |isbn=0-910043-70-1}}
• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |title=Anshu: Dark Sorrow |year=2010 |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |isbn=978-0-910043-83-0}}
• {{cite book |isbn=978-0-910043-82-3 |title=No Choice but to Follow |author1=Yamasaki Toyama, Jean |author2=Kono, Juliet S. |author3=Inoshita, Ann |author4=Passion, Christy |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |year=2011}} (special issue of Bamboo Ridge #96)
• {{cite book |isbn=978-0-910043-97-7 |title=What We Must Remember |author4=Yamasaki Toyama, Jean |author3=Kono, Juliet S. |author2=Inoshita, Ann |author1=Passion, Christy |publisher=Bamboo Ridge Press |year=2017}}

• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |author2=Fukawa, Emi (illus.) |title=How the Ocean Fooled Us |year=1997 |isbn=9780021825059}}
• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |author2=Trang, Winson (illus.) |title=A Day on the Cyclo |year=2000 |isbn=9780021477043}}
• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |author2=Chang, Heidi (illus.) |title=The Pancake Place |year=2000 |isbn=9780021476985}}
• {{cite book |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |author2=Fujitake, Dennis (illus.) |title=The Bravest {{okina}}Opihi |year=2005 |isbn=9781933067636}}

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• {{cite news |url=https://iexaminer.org/juliet-s-kono-explores-the-storms-of-life-in-poetry-and-prose/ |title=Juliet S. Kono explores the storms of life in poetry and prose |author=van Praag, Judith |date=December 20, 2006 |work=International Examiner}}
• {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5RxDwAAQBAJ |title=The Greenwood encyclopedia of Asian American literature |editor=Huang, Guiyou |chapter=Kono, Juliet Sanae |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5RxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA533 |author= |date=2009 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-34157-1 |pages=533}}
• {{youTube |id=pzTdvBXWyXg |title=The Reading Room with Juliet S. Kono}} (2019)
• Poems

:* {{cite web |url=https://poets.org/poem/silverswords |title=Silverswords |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |date=1988}} (from Hilo Rains)

:* {{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141947/homeless-590a0240aca5b |title=Homeless |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |date=1995}} (from Tsunami Years)

:* {{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141944/love-letters-590a007596b1f |title=Love Letters |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |date=1995}} (from Tsunami Years)

:* {{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141945/shower |title=Shower |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |date=1995}} (from Tsunami Years)

:* {{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141946/womanhood |title=Womanhood |author=Kono, Juliet S. |author-mask=— |date=1995}} (from Tsunami Years)

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