Brynn Saito is a poet and writer living in San Francisco, CA. Her work has been anthologized in Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology, 3rd edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press) and Ishmael Reed’s From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (Thunder Mouth’s Press). Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship (2008), the Poets 11 award from the San Francisco Public Library (2010), and the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award (2011). Brynn’s poems have appeared in Third Coast, Pleiades, Harpur Palate, Copper Nickel, Verse Daily, Drunken Boat, and The Collagist, and her first collection of poetry was a finalist for the 2011 Alice James Books / Kundiman Poetry Prize.