Sayuri Matsuura Ayers

Sayuri Matsuura Ayers is a Chinese Japanese American poet and writer. Her work explores familial archives and women's creative and physical labor, including the work of her grandmother, a farmer from Wakayama prefecture. Ayers’s poems and essays have appeared on the Poetry Foundation website and in the Chestnut Review, JOYLAND, TriQuarterly, Hippocampus Magazine, MUTHA, ANMLY, and more. Ayers is the author of four chapbook collections, most recently The Woman, The River and The Maiden in the Moon both from Porkbelly Press. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and son.