Betsy Aoki is a poet, short story writer and game producer. Her first poetry collection, Breakpoint, was a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist and received Tebot Bach's Patricia Bibby First Book Award. Its signature poem, "Slouching like a velvet rope," was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown as the winner of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. She currently serves as an assistant poetry editor at terrain.org and on the board of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

Books by Betsy Aoki:

Other poems on the web by Betsy Aoki:
"Letter to America"
"Please Don't Squeeze Me 'Til I'm Yours"

Betsy Aoki's Website.

Betsy Aoki on Twitter.