Ryka Aoki is an American author of novels, poetry, and essays. She teaches English at Santa Monica College and gender studies at Antioch University. Aoki's work includes the poetry collections Seasonal Velocities and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul, along with the novels He Mele a Hilo and Light from Uncommon Stars. Both Seasonal Velocities and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul were finalists at the Lambda Literary Awards for respective years.
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Ryka Aoki is an American author of novels, poetry, and essays. She teaches English at Santa Monica College and gender studies at Antioch University. Aoki's work includes the poetry collections Seasonal Velocities and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul, along with the novels He Mele a Hilo and Light from Uncommon Stars. Both Seasonal Velocities and Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul were finalists at the Lambda Literary Awards for respective years.
