Derek Otsuji
Derek N. Otsuji is a writer from Hawaii, born on Oahu. He is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours, which won the 2020 Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition. He is a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar and has received awards from Bread Loaf and The Kenyon Review Writers Conference. His poems have appeared in Pacifica Literary Review, Bamboo Ridge, The Threepenny Review, Rattle, and other journals.