She has a degree in Social Studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She started writing her first full-length novel while on deployment. After graduating, she served with the United States Navy for five years as an IT. Bowman was home-schooled for four years, and attended the Las Vegas Academy as a band major in high school. Her father is from Hawaii and has Japanese and Chinese heritage, and her mother is mostly Italian and Irish. Personal life īowman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when she was a toddler. Bowman's earlier work centered around realistic fiction, but now writes across genres, starting with her sci-fi series The Infinity Courts which released in April 2021. Morris Award Finalist young adult novel Starfish, which follows a Japanese-American teen named Kiko Himura who grapples with a toxic home life and attempts to find a back-up plan after being rejected by her dream art school.
Morris Award Finalist, 2022 Locus Award FinalistĪkemi Dawn Bowman is an American author, best known for her William C. Starfish, Summer Bird Blue, Harley in the Sky, The Infinity Courts series, Generation MisfitsĢ018 William C. Young Adult fiction, Middle Grade fiction Bowman autographing a book at the American Library Association's (ALA) Youth Media Awards in 2018
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