11/6: Kalehua Kim & Annie Wenstrup

Join us at the bookstore on November 6, 2025 at 7pm for readings by Kalehua Kim & Annie Wenstrup!

Kalehua Kim is a poet living in the Pacific Northwest. Born of Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino and Portuguese descent, her multicultural background informs much of her work. She is a 2023 winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets and earned her MFA through the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Calyx, and ‘Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal and she was an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow in 2023 and 2024. As a winner of the 2024 Trio House Press Editors Choice Prize, her first collection of poems, Mele, was released by Trio House in 2025. 

Annie Wenstrup is a Dena’ina poet and the author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories. She is the recipient of a 2025 Whiting Award in Poetry. Her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2023, she received The Alaska Literary Award and support from The Rasmuson Foundation. She was a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow, and an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow in 2022 and 2023.