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.
Words. Poems marked by emotional and spiritual opening. Writing as invocation, release, and first articulation of self.
Becomings. Poems written across a lifetime of experiment. A secular, corporeal poetics of identity in flux
Der Philosoph und der Kimono (in German) unites the short stories, including Papyri und Tatami, winner of the 2018 Swabian Literary Prize.
Anchor Works
These writings serve as structural anchors within the body of my work. Each articulates a distinct pressure point: history, homage, inheritance...
Shikata Ga Nai (German)
A documentary chronicle.
A heritage elegy.
A reflective homage.
Forthcoming
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:
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.