Shareen K. Murayama is a Japanese American, Okinawan American poet & educator. Her debut poetry collection, Housebreak, is forthcoming by Bad Betty Press (July 2022). Her first poetry chapbook, Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? by Harbor Editions (April 2022) made the “A Reading List for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month 2022 by CLMP. She’s a 2021 Best Microfiction winner, a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal & Cobra Milk Mag.and Asst. CNF Editor for JMWW. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in The McNeese Review, Pilgrimage Press, Flash Frog, RHINO Poetry, National Flash Fiction, Bamboo Ridge Press, & elsewhere. You can find her on IG and Twitter @ambusypoeming.