Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was born in Honolulu and raised in Kamuela, a small "cow town" on the Big Island of Hawaii.She is half-Japanese (on her mother's side) and half-Italian/Irish. Rahna's mother was born in Los Angeles and moved to Hawaii after she and her family were released from a war-time internment camp; her paternal grandfather was a politician in Hawaii and World War I vet.
Rahna studied at Wellesley in Massachusetts and transferred to Columbia College the first year they began accepting women. She was the first female to graduate from the College with a major in Astrophysics. Summer jobs during this time include isolating DNA for paternity and rape testing, and working for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation taking and analyzing pictures of globular clusters to estimate the masses of galaxies. Rahna decided not to be an astronomer in the last semester of her senior year and enrolled in two creative writing courses.
Her work has appeared in the Asian Pacific American Journal. She was also Associate Editor of and contributor to The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City. Her essay on childbirth is included in the Salon Magazine anthology, Mothers Who Think. And under a pseudonym, she has published four young adult mystery novels.
Rahna lives in a brownstone in Brooklyn with her husband and two young sons.
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