Keala Kendall is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of How Far I’ll Go and Nobody Gets Left Behind in Disney's A Twisted Tale series. Her horror debut, That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic, was a Reese Witherspoon Sunnie Reads Select pick and featured in BuzzFeed and Parade.
Hapa Native Hawaiian, she is a cofounder of Pacific Islanders in Publishing and a past organizer of the Books for Maui charity auction. Born in Honolulu, raised on Molokaʻi, she now lives as part of the Native Hawaiian diaspora in Los Angeles.
Portraying Modern Teens in Fiction
Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting St.
Moderated by Keala Kendall with Maureen Johnson, Alaa Al-Barkawi, DeAndra Davis, Natasha Diaz, and Page Powars
The Everlasting Appeal of Getting Scared
Sponsored by Peachtree Teen
Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting St.
Moderated by H D Hunter with Andrew Joseph White, Taylor Grothe, Lamar Giles, Christina Ferko, and Keala Kendall

