Where I Write: A Look Behind the Book
Take a look behind the book!
This site celebrates the places where acclaimed authors spin their stories and craft their characters. Whether they prefer noisy coffee-houses, living room sofas, or quiet offices, discover why these authors write where they write.
With this glimpse of the surroundings in which writers work and think hard, be inspired to celebrate your own creative space.
Kira Kanani Seamon was born and raised in Hawaii. She attended the prestigious Punahou School as an multi- award-winning honor student, winning two foreign language awards. She is a Certified Exercise Physiologist by the American College of Sports Medicine and a Certified Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Leader by the American Council on Exercise. A polymath, Kira is a gold medal/state winner in piano performance and a National and two-time Regional Dance Champion.
She’s an multi-award-winning photographer and has had her art accepted and sold in national and regional juried shows. She’s had over fifty newspaper cover stories about her art and has been on the arts cover of the Metrowest Daily News, The Enterprise, and the Daily News Transcript.
Her Patriot Ledger arts cover story (voted New England’s best regional paper), was picked up and published online/print in 123 towns, or the entire eastern half of Massachusetts. She celebrated her 24th solo multimedia show recently and her first solo museum exhibit of her work in 2020. She was recently the inaugural artist-in-residence in Natick, Massachusetts. She received a personal letter from the Massachusetts Senate President and a Certificate of Recognition from the Massachusetts State Legislation in recognition of her grant from Framingham, Massachusetts. All of this culminated in her receiving the prestigious Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, for which she appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 2020.
Her horror short story, A Cereus Curse, is published in Terror Tract’s Hell-o-Ween 2021 anthology. Kira has never met a story from Greek mythology that she didn’t love and has kept a daily journal since her teens. Dead Cereus is her first multi-award-winning novel.