 Kirby Wright is a subject of biographical entry in ten editions of Who's Who in America and was listed in the 2001 and 2007 editions of Who's Who in the World.He won a Visiting Writer post at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he joined fellow US poet Gary Snyder as well as Pacific Rim colleagues Young-Ha Kim (Korea), Bi Feiyu (China), Atsushi Shiitada (Okinawa), Wena Poon (Singapore), Chen Li (Taiwan), Miguel Syjuco (Philippines) and Janet Charman (New Zealand).He represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii at this writers conference.