Literary Arts

Sloan Asakura (she/he/they) is a poet and memoirist from Los Angeles. They are a '22 Periplus Fellow, a '23 Tin House Resident, and '25 Tin House Summer Workshop Alumnus. They are the winners of the 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Prize and the Brown University 2025 Frances Mason Harris Prize. Their work can be found in magazines such as Lantern Review, Zone 3, Joyland, Tupelo Quarterly, and more. Their writing is informed by conversations with trees, meditations on hereditary trauma & grief, parallelisms & unreliable realities, and contemplations forward into radical joy. They currently reside in Providence where they're in pursuit of their MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University.