Provided by Wikipedia Akemi Dawn Bowman is an American author, best known for her William C. Morris Award Finalist young adult novel ''Starfish'', which follows a Japanese-American teenager named Kiko Himura who grapples with a toxic home life and attempts to find a back-up plan after being rejected for a place at her dream art school. Bowman's earlier work centered around realistic fiction, but she now writes across genres, starting with her sci-fi series ''The Infinity Courts'' which was released in April 2021.
![Bowman autographing a book at the [[American Library Association]]'s Youth Media Awards in 2018](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/AkemiDawnBowmanSigningbooksatALA2018.png)