Brynn Saito is the author of three collections of poetry and two chapbooks. She is the recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Saito’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, VOGUE, and American Poetry Review; she’s received grant support from the California Arts Council, the California State Library, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Densho, and Hedgebrook. Saito’s third book of poems, Under a Future Sky, was published in 2023. She teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at Fresno State, located on Yokuts and Mono lands, and is co-editing an anthology of poetry written by descendants of the Japanese American/Nikkei incarceration that is forthcoming in 2025.