Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda is the author of seven books, most recently The Grave on the Wall (an ancestral memoir, published by City Lights, 2019), The Desert (poetry and prose, published by The Song Cave, 2018), and Evening Oracle (poetry and prose, published by Letter Machine Editions, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is the co-editor of retrospective collections of writings by poet/painters Etel Adnan and Wong May. Shimoda's essays on Japanese American incarceration have appeared widely, including in The Asian American Literary Review, Densho, Design Week Portland, Entropy, Hyperallergic, The Margins, and The New Inquiry. He lives in the desert. Find him on Twitter @brandonshimoda.