Sloan Asakura (she/he/they) is a poet and memoirist from Los Angeles. They are a '22 Periplus Fellow, a '23 Tin House Resident, a '25 Tin House Summer Workshop Alumnus, and a '26 candidate for their MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University. They are the winner of the 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest. Their work can be found in magazines such as Zone 3, Joyland, Tupelo Quarterly, and more.