Tom Gammarino

Tom Gammarino is author of the novels King of the Worlds (Chin Music Press, 2016) and Big in Japan (Chin Music Press, 2009) and the novellas Jellyfish Dreams (Amazon Kindle Single, 2012) and The Yellows (Black Hare Press, 2023). He recently co-edited Snaring New Suns: Speculative Works from Hawai’i and Beyond (Bamboo Ridge Press). Recent stories and essays have appeared (or soon will appear) in Interzone, The Oxonian, American Short Fiction, The Writer, Tahoma Literary Review, and Hawai‘i Pacific Review, among others. He holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School and a PhD in English from the University of Hawai‘i and has received a Fulbright fellowship in creative writing and the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Hawai’i’s highest literary honour. Currently, he teaches science fiction, magical realism, jazz lit, and creative writing at Punahou School in Honolulu. Tom Gammarino was in residence at Joy Kogawa House in June 2023, and as part of the residency, hosted a public program that surveyed jazz music in the twentieth century and discussed what writers can learn from jazz improvisation styles. tomgammarino.com