Kawika Guillermo is the award-winning author of Stamped: an anti-travel novel, All Flowers Bloom, and many short stories. He has lived in Portland, Las Vegas, Seattle, Gimhae South Korea, Nanjing China, Hong Kong, and currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.
Kawika Guillermo is the pseudonym for the mundane academic, Christopher B. Patterson, who spends his days patronizing big chain coffee-shops. He’s authored 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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