Brandon Shimoda
Author
Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including O Bon and its siblings, Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and The Grave on the Wall (City Lights), which received the PEN Open Book Award. He co-edited, with Thom Donovan, To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books), and is the curator of the Hiroshima Library, a reading room/itinerant collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He lives in the desert.