Lark Omura is a writer and organizer of mixed Japanese and Caucasian ancestry, born and raised in occupied Hawai’i, on the island of Maui. Her poetry can be found in The Rumpus, Kweli Journal, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, and The Hawai’i Review. She holds an MFA in poetry from Rutgers University-Newark, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.