T Kira Madden

T Kira Māhealani Madden is a diasporic Kanaka 'Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) author of the novel Whidbey (Mariner, 2026) and the acclaimed memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Winner of the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award, she is an assistant professor at Hamilton College and served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.