Alicia Upano was born and raised in Hawai’i. She is the recipient of the Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award Hawai’i, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and a Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholarship. Her short fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, The Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology, and more. After years in Asia and both U.S. continental coasts, she now resides on O’ahu with her family. Everything to the Sea is her debut novel.
