T Kira Madden

T Kira Madden
Madden at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
BornJuly 20, 1988 (1988-07-20) (age 37)
OccupationAuthor
Alma materParsons School of Design (BA)
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts (BA)
Sarah Lawrence College (MFA)
SpouseHannah Beresford
Website
tkiramadden.com

T Kira Māhealani Madden is a Kanaka 'Ōiwi writer. She is the author of a memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of No Tokens Journal. In 2021, she received Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. Her first fiction novel, Whidbey, is set to be published in March 2026.