Christopher Kawika Guillermo

Christopher Kawika Guillermo is the multi-award-winning author of seven books, which include the prose-poetry collection Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press, 2023), the essay collection Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025), and the academic book Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination (Duke University Press, 2026). They are the co-editor of two edited collections, Transpacific, Undisciplined and Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us, and they were lead designer of the video game Stamped: an anti-travel game, an adaptation of their first novel. They are currently Professor at The Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, and they previously lived in Portland, Las Vegas, Seattle, Gimhae South Korea, Nanjing China, and Hong Kong, before arriving back on Turtle Island, in the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Taeil-Watuth peoples.