‘22 Periplus Fellow
‘23 McCormack Writing Center (previously Tin House) Resident
‘25 McCormack Writing Center (previously Tin House) Summer Workshop Alumnus
‘26 Blue Mountain Center Resident
‘26 SUNHOUSE Mentor
‘26 LitArtsRI Workshop Leader
MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University
Winner of the 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest
Winner of the 2025 Brown University Frances Mason Harris Prize
Winner of the 2026 Brown University Edwin Honig Memorial Award
Winner of the 2026 ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year Award
Asakura’s work is informed by conversations with trees, meditations on hereditary & post memory, parallelisms & unreliable realities, the inhabited body as landscape, and contemplations forward into radical joy.
Interview with ONLY POEMS
Interview with Archipel
Interview with Mommy’s El Camino
‘23 McCormack Writing Center (previously Tin House) Resident
‘25 McCormack Writing Center (previously Tin House) Summer Workshop Alumnus
‘26 Blue Mountain Center Resident
‘26 SUNHOUSE Mentor
‘26 LitArtsRI Workshop Leader
MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University
Winner of the 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest
Winner of the 2025 Brown University Frances Mason Harris Prize
Winner of the 2026 Brown University Edwin Honig Memorial Award
Winner of the 2026 ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year Award
Asakura’s work is informed by conversations with trees, meditations on hereditary & post memory, parallelisms & unreliable realities, the inhabited body as landscape, and contemplations forward into radical joy.
Interview with ONLY POEMS
Interview with Archipel
Interview with Mommy’s El Camino
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