Jennifer K. Morita is a former reporter for the Sacramento Bee and is a writer for University Communications at Sacramento State. Morita is a fourth-generation Asian American who lived in Hawaii as a child. She is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and the current president of her local chapter of Sisters in Crime. She was a finalist for the 2022 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award. Ghosts of Waikīkī is her first novel.
