May Kuroiwa

Drawing, Fiction, Literary, Painting, Poetry, Prose, Visual / Media

About the Artist

May Kuroiwa’s grandparents emigrated from Japan over a hundred years ago to work on a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation. Hawaii and its land and peoples often appear in her work. One of her short stories won the 2020 Chautauqua Literary Arts Charles McCorkle Hauser Prize; another was selected this summer as a Narrative Magazine Story of the Week. Her poems have been published in The Loch Raven Review; Mobius, the Journal of Social Change; and Maryland in Poetry, the 2020 MWA Anthology. She is working on a chap book and her first play.