Miyako Pleines

Miyako Pleines is a Japanese and German American writer living in the suburbs of Chicago. Her work has been published at Catapult, The Rumpus, on the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere. She writes a column about birds and books for the Chicago Audubon Society, and you can follow her on Instagram @literary_miyako. Links to her work can be found on her website, miyakowrites.com.”