Kathryn "Kay" Waddell Takara (; born 1943) is an American poet. She won a 2010 American Book Award for Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems.
Takara graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor's degree in 1965, from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Master's degree in 1969, and from University of Hawaiûi with a PhD in 1995. She taught at the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Hawaiûi at MÃÂnoa.