Kimo Armitage

James Kimo Armitage is an American poet, children's book author, playwright and videographer from Haleʻiwa, Hawaii. He won the 2016 Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award for Poetry, and is best known for his 2016 novel, The Healers. As of 2013, Armitage was an assistant professor at Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Armitage was raised by his maternal grandparents in Haleʻiwa, Hawaii. He earned a doctorate in creative writing from the University of Hawaiʻi. He apprenticed with poet and novelist Albert Wendt.[citation needed]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies UHM Self-Study Report: Graduate Program Provisional to Permanent, August 2013 (PDF). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa . August 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2026.
  2. ↑ WorldCat author listing
  3. ↑ Wendt, Albert; Whaitiri, Reina; Sullivan, Robert, eds. (September 2010). Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Auckland: Auckland UP. ISBN 9781869404482.
  4. 1 2 Tanigawa, Noe (May 19, 2016). "Kimo Armitage Local Storyteller Makes Good!". Hawaiʻi Public Radio. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  5. ↑ Nolte-Odhiambo, Carmen (2025). "Hawaiian Mo'olelo as Sites of Resistance: Mele Oli and Temporality in Kimo Armitage's The Healers". Folia Linguistica et Litteraria (52): 103–121. ISSN 1800-8542.
  6. ↑ Indriyanto, Kristiawan; Rudy, Rudy (August 22, 2025). "'Seascape epistemology' and native Hawaiian healing: A reading of Kimo Armitage's The Healers" (PDF). Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT. 13 (2): 124–137. doi:10.46687/ASXB3561. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 16, 2025. Retrieved July 18, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Hawai'i Writers Kimo Armitage and Alicia Upano Win Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award". Poets & Writers. May 2, 2016. Archived from the original on December 10, 2023. Retrieved July 18, 2026.