Sharon Hashimoto

Sharon Hashimoto is a Sansei who has lived her whole life in the Pacific Northwest. Her father is from Manoa Valley, Hawai'i; her mother from Wapato, Washington. She writes poems and short stories. Her poetry books are The Crane Wife (Red Hen Press) and More American (Grid Books), winner of the 2022 Washington State Book Award. Stealing Home, a story collection, was published by Grid Books in 2024.

Updated January 2025

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Attempts at Remembering

Jan. 23, 2025 • Syd Westley , Sharon Hashimoto , traci kato-kiriyama

For the next few months, we have the pleasure and privilege of being able to feature selections in the upcoming anthology, The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (eds., Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda, Haymarket Books, 2025). This month, I am excited to feature two writers, Sansei writer Sharon Hashimoto, hailing from the Pacific Northwest, and Yonsei poet and artist Syd Westley, based in Oakland. Their poems nudge us to grapple with memory itself—the memory passed …