Above image: Book cover for Under a Future Sky (Red Hen Press, 2023). Image design by RHP and photo by Dave Lehl Photography.
“Brynn Saito writes with a rare, inimitable grace in her most personal and politically engaged book to date.”
Under a Future Sky, Brynn Saito’s third book of poems, unfolds in lyrical correspondences anchored in Brynn’s journey with her father to the desert prison where, over eighty years ago, her grandparents met and made a life. You can order the book below.
Brynn Saito is a poet, writer, educator & organizer based in Fresno, CA.
Brynn Saito (she/her), MA, MFA, is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Under a Future Sky (Red Hen Press, 2023). A 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow, Brynn is the winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She coedited with Brandon Shimoda The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymarket Books, April 2025). Brynn also co-authored with Traci Brimhall the poetry chapbook, Bright Power, Dark Peace (Diode Editions, 2016). She teaches in the Creative Writing program at California State University, Fresno, located on the traditional lands of the Yokuts and Mono peoples.