BLOODSICK

In a contemporary Hawai'i with a speculative twist, an overbearing mother and her newly menstruating daughter encounter ghosts, cults, and the scrutiny of the state when they flee their former lives for good. BLOODSICK is for fans of Stephen Graham Jones' THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS, Helen Phillips' THE NEED, and Jessamine Chan's THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS.

Megan Kakimoto's BLOODSICK is for fans of Stephen Graham Jones' THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS, Helen Phillips' THE NEED, and Jessamine Chan's THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS. Megan Kakimoto is a mixed-ethnicity writer of native Hawaiian and Japanese descent. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 and is currently a Fiction Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, where she is one of Elizabeth McCracken's mentees. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Boulevard, Conjunctions, Joyland, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She also serves as an associate editor for Bat City Review. She has attended the Tin House Writers Workshop, and her work has received support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop.