Kawika Guillermo is the award-winning author of Stamped: an anti-travel novel, All Flowers Bloom, and Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir. He has also many short stories, and a video game based on his first novel. He has lived in Portland, Las Vegas, Seattle, Gimhae South Korea, Nanjing China, Hong Kong, and currently resides in Vancouver, Canada, where he works as an Associate Professor of Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.
Kawika Guillermo is the matrilineal name of Christopher B. Patterson, who is author of the academic books Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific, and Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games.
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