About

I am a poet and fiction writer living in Philadelphia. My work has appeared in BOMB, A Darker Shade of Noir (ed. Joyce Carol Oates), and elsewhere.

I hold a PhD in English from Rutgers University, where I studied postcolonial theories and literatures.

Writing

Poetry

“Welcome to Connecticut, Land of Death and Rebirth” and “A Surfeit of Saturation and Light / Hungry Ghost,” Painted Bride Quarterly

“Salt Lace Lathe,” Nat. Brut

“Markov Sonnets,” Hyperallergic

“Transitional Object,” Peach Mag (2018 Pushcart Nominee)

“The Tomb of the Unknown Library Temp” and “MY STRUGGLE in (n) Repetitions,” BOMB Magazine

Fiction

“Her Heart May Fail Her,” in A Darker Shade of Noir (ed. Joyce Carol Oates)

A Novel Depicting “The” “Asian” “American” “Experience” (chaplet), Belladonna*

Contact

ydshiroma [at] gmail [dot] com