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. Light from Uncommon Stars was nominated for a 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel and a 2022 Ray Bradbury Prize and was awarded the 2021 Otherwise Award at Wiscon 46 in May 2023.
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