Kona is a writer and editor. She has written and published
many short stories and prose poems and she is currently working on her
first fiction novel as well as a non-fiction book about living in
northern Alaska. She is on the editorial board of Fast Forward Press and
she was co-founder of the Write Trash writing group in Fairbanks,
Alaska. She received the Redwood Empire Mensa Award for Creative
Non-Fiction
in 2006 and has most recently been published in Toyon, Be Brave Bold Robot,
The Bathroom,
Fast Forward,
Monkey Puzzle,
Bombay Gin, and
Zero Ducats.
She is originally from the small town art hub of Eureka, California, amid enormous Redwood trees and vacant beaches near the Oregon border. She has lived in Boston, Massachusetts, Fairbanks and Fort Yukon, Alaska, and is now part of the writing scene in Denver, Colorado. She is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing through Naropa University and running her own manuscript editing and critique business (please see the Editing page on this website).