Who We Are as Floral, Faunal, Mineral Beings

Brenda Iijima is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry and the novel Presence (Georgia Review Books, 2024). Her involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of genre, mode, receptivity, and field of study. Her current work engages submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human modes of expression, and telluric awareness in all forms. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn.