Sloan Asakura - Poet, Memoirist | Brown University MFA Candidate






Sloan Asakura
(she/he/they)
poet / memoirist / other & else
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‘22 Periplus Fellow
‘23 Tin House Resident
‘25 Tin House Summer Workshop Alumnus
‘26 candidate for their MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University
Winner of the 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest
Winner of the 2025 Brown University Frances Mason Harris Prize




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 Mommy’s El Camino





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