Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights, 2024), which received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation; Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023); and The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award. He is the co-editor, with Brynn Saito, of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, which is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2025. He lives with his family in Colorado Springs, where he teaches creative writing and Japanese American literature at Colorado College.