Brandon Shimoda was born in California and has since lived in eleven states and six countries, most recently Maine, Taiwan and Arizona. He is the author of O BON (Litmus Press, 2011), THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS (Black Ocean, 2011) and THE ALPS (Flim Forum Press, 2008), as well as numerous limited edition chapbooks, including The Grave on the Wall (DoubleCross Press, 2011), Lake M (Corollary Press, 2010), The Inland Sea, (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008) and, with poet/artist Phil Cordelli, The Pines, Volumes 1-6. He is co-editing, with poet/critic Thom Donovan, a retrospective collection of Etel Adnan's