About
Sloan Asakura (she/he/they) is a poet and memoirist from Los Angeles. They’re a ‘22 Periplus Fellow, a ‘23 Tin House Resident, a ‘25 Tin House Workshop alumnus, and ‘26 Candidate for an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University. They are the winner of the 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt Contest & the Brown University ‘25 Frances Mason Harris Prize.
Their writing is informed by conversations with trees, meditations on lineage and grief, parallelisms and unreliable realities, and contemplations forward into radical joy.
Their poems and lyric essays have been published in various literary magazines including Rigorous, Rogue Agent, The Lantern Review, Zone 3, Joyland, Tupelo Quarterly, and more.
Portfolio
Excerpt from “Window” | 2024 CRAFT Literary Memoir Excerpt & Essay Prize
Judged by Donald Quist
3 poems | Tupelo Quarterly
August 6th, 19_5 | apparition | death in the family
From “Descent” | Joyland
blue house full of blue bodies | Zone 3
a fire on wind can make any brush blush | Zone 3
Until Mourning | The Lantern Review
From “How to Love a Headstone” | O: JA&L
Altar | She wears me whenever I wear her jeans | Kamikaze bugs look like my hands when I’m holding onto him | In Our House | oyster shells can sing if they are empty
Self as Girl | Rogue Agent
March | Rogue Agent
Over coffee, with evaporated milk | The Mantle
From “Heritage” | Rigorous
New Life | Lepidoptera | Hiroshima | On Daughters | first love
[S]kin | Jeopardy Magazine