Brynn Saito

Brandon Shimoda is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, including Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023), The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His next book is on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration, and is forthcoming from City Lights in 2024. His writing has been published in BOMB, Brick, Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Times, and Poetry, among other venues. Brynn Saito is the author of Under a Future Sky (2023), Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She has received grant support from Densho, Hedgebrook, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times and American Poetry Review and she was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Brynn lives in the traditional homelands of the Yokuts and Mono peoples (also known as Fresno, CA), where she teaches in the MFA program at California State University, Fresno.