Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (born May 6, 1993) is a Japanese and Kanaka Maoli author. She is the author of the story collection Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare, an instant USA Today National Bestseller, named an Indies Introduce title and a September Indie Next pick by the American Booksellers Association, and a Best Book of 2023 by Powells Books. The collection consists of eleven short stories that interweave Hawaiian mythology and superstition into a surreal contemporary Hawaiian vision. She is the Fiction Editor for No Tokens Journal, and a faculty member at Antioch University's MFA Program.
Kakimoto graduated from Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawai'i, earned a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and an M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. Notable Alumni
Her fiction has been featured in Granta, Conjunctions, , and Electric Literature, among others. She was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature and has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work has been called "a reset for HawaiâÂÂi literature" in Honolulu Magazine. She has essays published in The Guardian, Literary Hub, and elsewhere.