Sloan Asakura (she/he/they) is a poet and memoirist from Los Angeles. They are a ’22 Periplus Fellow and ’23 Tin House Resident. Their work has been previously published in magazines such as Rigorous, Rogue Agent, The Lantern Review, Zone 3, Joyland, and more. They are a ’26 candidate for MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University. In their free time, they can be found in conversation with trees and saving bumblebees from their resident gargoyle (cat).