Events › Author Voices: Kiku Hughes

Join a conversation with Kiku Hughes, author of Displacement.

Learn about the historical and personal effects of Japanese incarceration camps. Discover the intergenerational issues they created.

Book signing starts at 3pm.

Free books will be available at the event, while supplies last.

About the Author
Kiku Hughes is a Japanese American (Yonsei) cartoonist from the Seattle area. Her first graphic novel, Displacement, was published by First Second in 2020. It earned an APALA Literature Award honor and was an Eisner Award nominee. Kiku’s work explores themes of identity, queer romance, soft sci-fi and anti-capitalist futures.

About the Moderator
Nina Nobuko Wallace is the Media & Outreach Manager at Densho. Densho is an online archive and public history organization. It preserves and shares the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II.

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If you are joining us in person at the Bellevue Library:

Talk starts at 2pm.

Book signing at 3pm

Free books are available at the event while supplies last.

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