As a teenager, Amanda Nagai was a decorated youth poet (published Merlyn's Pen, 1999; Bennington College poetry contest winner, 2000; Rutgers-Newark Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry contest winner and selected festival reader, 2000; Princeton University Poetry Contest honorable mention, 2000).
Today, she is a poet, dancer, artist, designer, survivor, and creator, who has previously moonlighted as analyst, software developer, operations guru, startup founder, and handywoman. She laughs as much as she grieves and loves people as much as the solitude of trees and feeling washed by ocean waves.
