Aozora Brockman

Aozora Brockman is a mixed-Japanese poet and essayist. She was raised on an organic vegetable farm in Central Illinois, and is the author of the chapbooks The Happiness of Dirt and Memory of a Girl. A recipient of the 2015 Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, Aozora's creative work has appeared in the Cortland Review, Fifth Wednesday, and Catapult. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan.