Kai Harris

Kai is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, whose debut novel, What the Fireflies Knew, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and selected as a Marie Claire Book Club pick. Kai’s writing, which centers on the Black experience, has inspired talks at venues including the LA Times Festival of Books, Texas Book Festival, Miami Book Fair, and the National Black Writers Conference. Kai resides in the Bay Area where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University. While in residence, she worked on a young adult novel set at the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.