McKinney, Chris

Chris is the author of five novels, The Tattoo, The Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row, Mililani Mauka, and Boi No Good, and has written a feature film screenplay, Paradise Broken, and a short film, The Back Door, both of which premiered at the 2011 Hawaii International Film Festival. He is an associate professor at Honolulu Community College and was recently appointed Visiting Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

He and his wife Mika co-direct the Chris McKinney Language Arts Center, which offers reading and writing courses for elementary school children, teens, and adults...