Darien Gee on Clubhouse

Bio

Novelist @penguinrandomhouse
Poet @poetrysocietyofamerica
Blogger @friendshipbreadkitchen
🏡Founder: Writer-ish
🏡Co-Founder: The Creativist Collective

→ dariengee.com
→ friendshipbreadkitchen.com

🌋 Island of Hawaiʻi
🧧 Chinese American
🐾 Part-time dog owner
💃🏻 Creative pivoter
📿 Opinionated, but also whatever, because memento mori + YOLO + sanity maintenance
📚 Wrangler of little humans (3 kids, born and raised Hawaiʻi) and stories (10 books, women’s commercial fiction, poetry, essays/memoir, craft book on writing memoir)
✍🏼 Series editor and co-creator, Haliʻa Aloha micro memoir and hybrid publishing program @watermarkpublishing 📚
🌺Winner, Hawaiʻi Book Publishers’ Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence
🌁 Former board member: ZYZZYVA, Friends and Foundation of San Francisco Public Library, Kahilu Theatre
👐🏼 Hawaiʻi Leadership Council, Hawaiʻi Community Foundation
🦸🏻‍♀️ Prior life: Missouri, Texas, California, Hong Kong, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Beijing. HKIS. Miss Porter’s. Wellesley. Rice. RWW. PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sephora.com,

✳️ Feel free to ping me into rooms about writing and/or publishing. I’m happy to co-mod on almost anything that has to do with the art and/or business of writing, creativity, creative pivots, life/family/writing/day job balance, living/working in Hawaiʻi, writing habits and daily practices.

Featured Titles:
→ Allegiance (memoir, personal essay)
→ Other Small Histories (poetry)
→ Writing the Hawaiʻi Memoir (how to, craft)
→ Friendship Bread (novel, 11 countries)
→ Good Things (novel, written as Mia King)

Recently interviewed on:
→ https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/darien-hsu-gee-making-the-most-out-of-micro
→ https://www.janefriedman.com/darien-hsu-gee/
→ http://bit.ly/darien-gee-hawaii-public-radio

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