Brandon Shimoda

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Brandon Shimoda (he/him) is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), recipient of the PEN Open Book Award; Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2015), recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and his two-volume Tucson/desert book, The Desert (The Song Cave, 2018) and Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023). He is curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.