Literary Arts

Sloan Asakura

Biography

Sloan Asakura (she/he/they) is a poet and memoirist from Los Angeles. They were named a '22 Periplus Fellow and awarded a '23 Tin House Residency. Their work has been published in magazines such as Rigorous, Rogue Agent, The Lantern Review, Zone 3, Joyland, and more. They are a current MFA candidate at Brown University. Their writing is informed by conversations with trees, meditations on lineage and grief, and contemplations forward into radical joy.