Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki is a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist. Her poetry collection about women in technology, Breakpoint, went on to receive the Patricia Bibby First Book Award and its signature poem, “Slouching like a velvet rope,” was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Aoki has received fellowships from the City of Seattle, Artist Trust Foundation, Jackstraw Writers Program, and Hedgebrook.
Her publications include the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Hunger Mountain, The Seattle Times, Nassau Review, Terrain.org (Letters to America series), Phoebe, Enizagam, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Calyx, Asian Pacific Journal, and Southern Humanities Review (as a finalist for Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye).
