Kirby Wright will join fellow US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Snyder at the International Writers Conference in Hong Kong November thru December, 2009. Wright was selected as Hawaii's representative and will join a panel of 7 fellow Pacific Rim writers at the 5-week conference, which includes excursions into Mainland China where he will lecture at the campuses of United International College in Zhuhai and Shangdong University in Shangdong Province.

Wright's poems and short stories have appeared in over 100 literary reviews, including Hayden's Ferry Review, Artful Dodge, Blue Mesa Review, Maryland Review, Melic Review, Cortland Review, Hawai'i Review, Chaminade Literary Review, and Honolulu Magazine. He is the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA as well as the award-winning poetry collection BEFORE THE CITY.

Wright is represented by Geraldine Nichol of The Book Bureau Literary Agency in Wicklow, Ireland.