Kimo Armitage

{{Short description|American poet and author}}

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Kimo Armitage is a poet, children's book author,[http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-no2005-12762 WorldCat author listing] playwright and videographer{{cite book |editor1-first=Albert |editor1-last=Wendt |editor1-link=Albert Wendt |editor2-first=Reina |editor2-last=Whaitiri |editor2-link=Reina Whaitiri |editor3-first=Robert |editor3-last=Sullivan|editor3-link=Robert Sullivan (poet) |title=Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English |location=Auckland |publisher=Auckland UP |date=September 2010 |isbn=9781869404482}} from Hale'iwa, O'ahu, where his maternal grandparents raised him.{{cite web |last1=Tanigawa |first1=Noe |title=Kimo Armitage Local Storyteller Makes Good! |url=https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/kimo-armitage-local-storyteller-makes-good#stream/0 |website=Hawaiʻi Public Radio |accessdate=19 July 2020 |date=19 May 2016}} Kimo apprenticed with poet and novelist Albert Wendt. He is an assistant professor at Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He won the 2016 Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award for Poetry. His first novel, The Healer, was published in 2016.