Kathryn Waddell Takara

Kathryn "Kay" Waddell Takara (born 1943) is an American poet. She won a 2010 American Book Award for Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems.

Takara graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor's degree in 1965, from the University of California, Berkeley with a Masters degree in 1969, and from University of Hawai'i with a PhD in 1995. She taught at the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.

• Takara, Kathryn Waddell. New and Collected Poems, Ishmael Reed Publishing Co., 2003. ISBN 978-0-918408-35-8
• Takara, Kathryn Waddell. Pacific Raven: Hawaii Poems, Pacific Raven Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9841228-0-6
• Takara, Kathryn Waddell. Tourmalines: Beyond the Ebony Portal, Pacific Raven Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9841228-2-0