Brandon Shimoda was born in California. He is the author of The Alps (Flim Forum, 2008), O BON (Litmus Press, 2011), THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS (Black Ocean, 2011), PORTUGUESE (Octopus Books, 2014), and EVENING ORACLE (Letter Machine Editions, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and THE DESERT (The Song Cave, 2018). He also co-edited (with Thom Donovan) To Look At The Sea Is To Become What One Is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books, 2014). He lives in the desert.
