Kiana Davenport

Kiana Davenport is a Native Hawaiian author living in Boston and Hawaii. She is the author of the internationally best-selling novels Shark Dialogues (1994), Song of the Exile (1999), House of Many Gods (2006), and The Spy Lover (2012). She has also published two collections of stories as ebooks: House of Skin: Prizewinning Stories and Cannibal Nights, Pacific Stories Vol. II, both of which have been Kindle Bestsellers. A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Davenport was also a Bunting Fellow in Writing at Harvard University, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts in Writing. Her short stories have won numerous O. Henry Awards, Pushcart Prizes, and Best American Short Story Award in 2000. Her novels and short stories have been translated into 21 languages.