Derek N. Otsuji

Born on Oahu, Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours (SIU Press, 2021), featured in Honolulu Magazine’s “Essential Hawaii Books You Should Read.” He is a 2023 Longleaf Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar. Recent work has appeared in 32 Poems, Southern Review, and The Threepenny Review.

Derek N. Otsuji's work appears in Issue 46.1 Summer/Fall 2025.