Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer, and the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023). He is also the curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which has been installed most recently at the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles) and Counterpath Gallery (Denver). His front door faces a mountain.

Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer, and the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023). He is also the curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which has been installed most recently at the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles) and Counterpath Gallery (Denver). His front door faces a mountain. See less