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Artist Dane Kai Kondo is of Japanese descent, and was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. As an avid diver and fisherman, gyotaku allows him to share his love for the ocean and a glimpse of the life within it. He uses specimens caught by himself in the crystal clean waters of Hawaii.
Margarita Engle is a botanist and the Cuban-American author of three books about the island, most recently The Poet Slave of Cuba, a Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Henry Holt & Co.), which has received starred reviews from Booklist and three other major library journals. Short works appear in a wide variety of journals, anthologies, and chapbooks. Recent awards include semi-finalist selection for the 2006 Nimrod Hardman/Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize.