Dwight Okita lives in Chicago with an imaginary cat and a great circle of friends and colleagues. He also designs websites, is a professional therapeutic cuddler, and is a passionate moviegoer. Okita's first novel THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. The book focuses on&n.... more
Dwight Okita lives in Chicago with an imaginary cat and a great circle of friends and colleagues. He also designs websites, is a professional therapeutic cuddler, and is a passionate moviegoer. Okita's first novel THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. The book focuses on a human embryo that is allowed to preview the world before deciding whether to be born. Some describe his novels as "magic-realist fables" or "sci-fi for people who don't like sci-fi." Okita's work has been recognized in the Norton Introduction to Poetry, the HBO New Writers Showcase, and by the Illinois Arts Council. Book-to-film projects are represented by Affirmative Entertainment. He is currently working on a novel called EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE which deals with love, reincarnation, and the gun violence epidemic. www.DwightOkita.com
Dwight Okita's Projects
The Hope Store
Two close friends -- Luke and Kazu -- discover a bold, new procedure to install hope into the hop... more
The Hope Store
Two Asian American men, Luke and Kazu, discover a bold new procedure to import hope into the hopeles... more
The Invention of Fireflies (a memoir of the Magical & the Monstrous)
Before he appeared nationally on the Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box dressed as a chef, before he kisse... more
THE INVENTION OF FIREFLIES: a memoir of the magical & the monstrous
THE INVENTION OF FIREFLIES explores the magic and the monsters I've encountered in my lifetim... more
