Miyako Pleines

Miyako Pleines is a Japanese and German American writer living in Illinois. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in Hypertext Review, the Ploughshares blog, and Hapa Mag, among others, and is forthcoming from the Sierra Nevada Review. She also writes a monthly column about birds and books for the Chicago Audubon Society. Follow her on Instagram at @literary_miyako.