what is form to you?
what does form mean to you?
certainly not this
almost shape we might instead
question recognition see ourselves here
do you see me? where do i stop?
where does form begin?
a shadow is a bleeding thing
and even that is familiar
‘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
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
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 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
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
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 Archipel
Interview with Mommy’s El Camino
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Publications
Bellingham Review (forthcoming)
Rawhead (forthcoming)
war in the window
TriQuarterly
designs of survival
Zócalo
ICE eats the neighborhood
The Rumpus
prognosis of sound
BRINK
signs of life
Sunspot Lit | 2026 Geminga Contest Finalist
! check the rear seats !
2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest
Excerpt of “Window” | Judged by Donald Quist
Tupelo Quarterly
August 6th, 19_5 | apparition | death in the family
Joyland
Excerpt of “Descent”
Zone 3
blue house full of blue bodies | a fire on wind can make any brush blush
The Lantern Review
until mourning
O:JA&L
altar | she wears me whenever i wear her jeans | kamikaze bugs look like my hands when i’m holding onto him | in our house | oyster shells can sing if they are empty
Rogue Agent
self as girl
Rogue Agent
march
The Mantle
over coffee, with evaporated milk
Rigorous
new life | lepidoptera | hiroshima | on daughters | first love
Jeopardy Magazine
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