Raised in rural Hawaii, Waimea started performing as a teenager, spent a decade in Europe singing opera, then studied creative writing at UC/Berkeley. Now back in the islands, her debut novel “Aloha, Mozart” made the San Francisco Book Review’s Top 10 for 2012. In Hawai’i it won a 2013 Ka Palapala Po’okela (excellence) award, was featured at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival, at UH/Maui Celebrates Reading, and at the Squaw Valley writers conference. The author has a second novel under submission and is at work on a third.
Follow Waimea on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/authorwwilliamsRaised in rural Hawaii, Waimea started performing as a teenager, spent a decade in Europe singing opera, then studied creative writing at UC/Berkeley. Now back in the islands, her debut novel “Aloha, Mozart” made the San Francisco Book Review’s Top 10 for 2012. In Hawai’i it won a 2013 Ka Palapala Po’okela (excellence) award, was featured at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival, at UH/Maui Celebrates Reading, and at the Squaw Valley writers conference. The author has a second novel under submission and is at work on a third.