Growing up in Honolulu isn't all it's cracked up to be for Jeffrey Gill. After he gets into prestigious Punahou School, his rite of passage includes losing the babe of his dreams to a creep, surviving Killahaole Day, and getting pushed around by the school bully. In the world of academics, Jeff knows he's hardly Stanford material. Uncle Sharkey teaches Jeff the sweet science and he beefs his arch enemy at Waialae Golf Course. He salvages his senior year by getting into a mainland college and taking a foxy girl to the Senior Prom. But he must wait until graduation night to find out if the feelings he has for her are mutual.
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu. He is a graduate of Punahou School. He was an Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellow and holds degrees from University of California at San Diego and San Francisco State University. Wright is the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He won a Visiting Writer Fellowship in Hong Kong and represented Hawaii at the 2009 International Writers Conference, where he lectured and gave recitals with poet Gary Snyder and 7 Pacific Rim colleagues, including Korean novelist Young-ha Kim and Chinese writer Bi Feiyu, who wrote the screenplay for the movie SHANGHAI TRIAD.
Wright was a Resident at the 2010 Martha's Vineyard Writers Colony in Edgartown, Mass. He is currently the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.
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