D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie

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Poet
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D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in 2023.

D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie is a queer, Native Hawaiian poet. He is the author of The Mana of Salt (Backbone Press, 2023), winner of the 2023 Backbone Press Chapbook Contest, and From Hunger to Prayer (Silverneedle Press, 2018). He lives in Kailua, on the island of Oahu in Hawai‘i.