Brandi-Ann Uyemura

For over 17 years, Brandi-Ann Uyemura has written for national, local, and regional publications and worked as a copywriter for various companies including Hawaii Life, Intuit, Nerd Wallet, Toyota Hawaii, Tiny Prints, WalmartLabs, and Art.com. Her debut picture book illustrated by Amy Matsushita-Beal and published by Holiday House, comes out summer of 2025.

Uyemura has been an online columnist for "The Writer" magazine, associate editor for Psych Central, and her articles have been published on various sites including Beliefnet, Spirituality & Health, Yoga Journal, MindBodyGreen, and US News Money. She has a graduate degree in counseling psychology and health, and has a passion for using her storytelling skills to help solve, support and encourage others to heal the earth and write books for kids which you can read more about on her website brandi-annuyemura.com/blog