Hiromi Yoshida

Author of one full-length poetry collection and four poetry chapbooks, Hiromi Yoshida is a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize, and a semifinalist for the Gerald Cable Book Award. While serving as a poetry reader for Flying Island Journal, she coordinates the Last Sunday Poetry reading series for the Writers Guild at Bloomington. Her second full-length poetry book, Green Roses Bloom for Icarus, is forthcoming from Roadside Press in October 2024. Hiromi Yoshida also serves on the board of directors for the Writers Guild at Bloomington and the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington. A contributing writer for local arts, she has covered for Limestone Post Magazine topics such as Indiana writers during the COVID pandemic; Matt Hart’s poetry book FAMILIAR (Ledge Mule Press, October 2022); Bloomington’s new theater companies, Off Night Productions, and Eclipse Productions; and the Radical Jewelry Makeover collaborative project between the IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, and the nonprofit Ethical Metalsmiths (shortlisted for “Top Stories on Limestone Post for 2023″ in the “LP Impact Report: 2020-2023″). She has also served as spoken word coordinator and MC for the Stormwash: Climate Awareness inter-arts production on 19 April 2024 at the Arts Alliance Center Flex Space, and as editor for Stormwash: Environmental Poems (The Grind Stone, April 2024).