“Her narrative strategies force readers to revise their understandings of the people, especially family members, whom she portrays and, in consequence, to empathize.”
Sharon Hashimoto
Sharon Hashimoto’s second poetry collection, More American, won the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize judged by Marilyn Nelson and the 2022 Washington State Book Award in poetry. Her first book, The Crane Wife (co-winner of the 2003 Nicholas Roerich Prize and published by Story Line Press), was reprinted by Red Hen Press in 2021. Hashimoto’s poems and short stories have appeared in Indiana Review, Louisiana Literature, North American Review, Pedestal, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other literary publications. She is a recipient of a NEA fellowship in poetry. She lives in Tukwila, Washington, with her husband, poet Michael Spence, and their two cats.
More American
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