Brandon Shimoda‘s recent books are The Desert (poetry and prose; The Song Cave), Dept. of Posthumous Letters (drawings; text by Dot Devota and Caitie Moore; Argos Books), and The Grave on the Wall (an ancestral memoir, forthcoming from City Lights). He is currently researching/writing a book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration, passages from which have appeared in/on The Asian American Literary Review, Densho Blog, Hyperallergic, The Margins, and The New Inquiry. He lives in the desert.