Janine Oshiro is the author of Pier, winner of the 2010 Kundiman Poetry Prize, published by Alice James Books. She has been awarded the 2013 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry and the 2011 Elliot Cades Award for Literature in Hawaiʻi. A graduate of Whitworth University, Portland State University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she currently lives in Hawaiʻi.