John Blossom lives in Waimea and is the author of a climate change memoir, Trespassing, and six other books available on JTBlossom.com. His 2023 release, The Last Football Player, is a middle-grade novel about the dangers and promises of technology that won numerous awards including the 2024 IndieReaders Discovery Award for Sports, AWA's Sports Book of the Year Award Runner-up, as well as a rare starred review from Blue Ink Reviews. 

In his newest release, Mahina Rises, Mr. Blossom tells the fictional tale of a Hawaiian teenager who finds a way to fight climate change through her family’s mystical power of dreaming. Described as middle-grade Murukami, Mahina Rises sends a heartfelt message of aloha for the healing of our planet. It has been awarded an Editor's Pick designation from BookLife (Publishers' Weekly).