Â鶹´«Ã½ writers and Brenda Kwon have been named the 2015 winners of the Elliott Cades Awards for Literature, the most prestigious literary honor in Â鶹´«Ã½. Schultz is a professor and Kwon is a assistant professor.
The non-profit , which is charged with administering the awards program, selected Schultz as the recipient of the award for an established artist and Kwon was named the winner of the award for an emerging artist. They received their awards on Saturday, April 30 at the 11th annual .
Susan M. Schultz
Schultz has lived and taught in Â鶹´«Ã½ since 1990. She is the author of several books of poetry and poetic prose, including , and . Her new book, Memory Cards: Thomas Traherne Series, is just out from Talisman Press.
She is also a critic, editor and publisher who founded in 1995. Tinfish Press has published dozens of poets from Â鶹´«Ã½ and in and around the Pacific over the past 20 years.
Brenda Kwon
Born and raised in Â鶹´«Ã½, Kwon received her BA from University of Southern California in English and creative writing, and her PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in American literature. She is the author of Beyond Keʻeaumoku: Koreans, Nationalism and Local Culture in Â鶹´«Ã½; co-editor of and , which won Honorable Mention for the 2015 Ka Palapala Pookela awards.
A 2005 Fulbright Fellow, her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies, and she has performed her poetry both nationally and internationally.
—Story from a Â鶹´«Ã½ Literary Arts Council news release