Legacy
Necessity or prerogative: gathering, choosing — the crystallized essence of a life. Work that stands, with a few words of opening. This is my position. My testament.
Publications
Paris Choice. A novel shaped by surrealist poetry, confessional literature, and music. A woman struggling to hold craft and fracture in the same body.
Der Philosoph und der Kimono (in German) unites the short stories, including Papyri und Tatami, winner of the 2018 Swabian Literary Prize.
Becomings. Poems written across a lifetime of experiment. A secular, corporeal poetics of identity in flux
Words. Poems marked by emotional and spiritual opening. Writing as invocation, release, and first articulation of self.
Texts about Works
My writing engages questions of authorship, fragmentation, cruelty, and form — drawing on figures such as Christa Wolf, Artaud, Bataille, and Murakami. Read more:
A Life’s Arc
Paris Choice took twelve years to emerge. During that time, I kept a companion website in the voice of its protagonist, Juni Shimata—mapping attempts, ruptures, and reorientation. It remains online as a record of that process.