Author
Malia Robin Kawaguchi
Malia Kawaguchi has always been a writer, from frantically scribbling Lord of the Rings and Lost Boys fanfics in junior high notebooks, to working as a speechwriter for a state Senator in Hawaii, to writing a weekly parenting column for the AOL site Patch.com. This publication in Daily Science Fiction, however, is her first fiction sale. She could not be more delighted.
When not living in her own head, Malia lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, her daughter, two cats, and a dog. As a new author, she does not have much of an online presence yet, but she keeps track of things she adores at liasloves.tumblr.com. Story Notes on Phoenix Rising This story, like all my stories, started with a �What if?� The particular �what if� was triggered by a lunch discussion with fellow writers Carla Dugas, Gordon Bonnet, and Jill Webb during last summer�s Cascade Writer�s Workshop (http://cascadewriters.com). We ate spicy Thai food and mused about how ungodly hot Phoenix is. Why on earth would a city in an already scorching location be designed so poorly that it�s hotter in the city than in the surrounding desert? This base of this story was my answer. Then, in Cat Rambo�s Advanced Story Workshop (http://www.kittywumpus.net), the lead character was added, and the story became complete. My thanks to everyone involved in its creation.
When not living in her own head, Malia lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, her daughter, two cats, and a dog. As a new author, she does not have much of an online presence yet, but she keeps track of things she adores at liasloves.tumblr.com. Story Notes on Phoenix Rising This story, like all my stories, started with a �What if?� The particular �what if� was triggered by a lunch discussion with fellow writers Carla Dugas, Gordon Bonnet, and Jill Webb during last summer�s Cascade Writer�s Workshop (http://cascadewriters.com). We ate spicy Thai food and mused about how ungodly hot Phoenix is. Why on earth would a city in an already scorching location be designed so poorly that it�s hotter in the city than in the surrounding desert? This base of this story was my answer. Then, in Cat Rambo�s Advanced Story Workshop (http://www.kittywumpus.net), the lead character was added, and the story became complete. My thanks to everyone involved in its creation.