Books
Breakpoint, winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Prize from Tebot Bach, was my debut collection about women in tech published March 1, 2022! For a deeper dive, see the Breakpoint page.
My chapbook, Every Vanish Leaves Its Trace, published in 2009 by Finishing Line Press, can be ordered from Finishing Line Press or Amazon.com
Review of above chapbook by Prick of the Spindle (PDF copy from Wayback Machine).
Anthologies/Series
Cascadia Field Guide, edited by CMarie Fuhrman, Elizabeth Bradfield and Derek Sheffield. A fabulous union of artworks, poems and essays about Pacific Northwest plants, animals and landscapes. I was actually one of the early poets whose work was included in the pitches to publishers (which is how I ended up with two poems in here — “Prairie Lupine” and “When they looked at you breathing, they saw scarlet wings.”) The anthology was the winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.
Buy it at Mountaineers Books or Amazon.
Climbing Lightly Through Forests
Bucket list anthology, as I love Ursula K. Le Guin! Published in 2021!They picked “Might As Well Say I’m the Words She Read,” the title is a line from one of LeGuin’s own poems. Buy it at Aqueduct Press or Amazon.
My Letter to America was published as part of Terrain.org’s online Dear America series.
Several poems of mine are included in Fire on Her Tongue: an eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry – Two Sylvias Press
Several poems were also included in Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves – A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry.
Sampling of Journal Publications (alphabetical order):
Asian Pacific Journal, Calyx, Enizagam, Hunger Mountain, Nassau Review (2015 Writer Award, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Phoebe, Poetry Northwest, Seattle Review, Southern Humanities Review (finalist for Auburn Witness Poetry Prize), Seattle Times, Strange Horizons, terrain.org (Letters to America series), Uncanny Magazine.
Speculative Writing Awards
- As Poetry Editor for Uncanny Magazine, received Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine (2025)
- Rhysling Nominee and included in the Rhysling Anthology (science fiction and fantasy’s main poetry award) 2019
Literary Contests
- Auburn Witness Poetry Prize – First Place Winner, Selected by Jericho Brown
- National Poetry Series Finalist 2019 (for the Breakpoint manuscript)
- Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Finalist (Southern Humanities Review) 2017
- Ruth Stone Poetry Prize Finalist (Hunger Mountain) 2015
Literary Grants and Awards
- Artist Trust Fellowship
- Seattle Arts Commission
- Jackstraw Writers fellowship program (curated by
Shalin Hai-Jew) - Hedgebrook Writers in Residence
Book Reviews (By Betsy Aoki about other works)
International Examiner (assigned by Arts Editor), including…
Betsy Aoki 
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