Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books, 2004). Her book If Not Metamorphic was runner up for the Sawtooth Prize and will be published by Ashata Press. Chapbooks include: Animal Lesson (forthcoming from Fewer & Further Press), Color and Its Antecedents (Yen Agat, 2004), Early Linoleum (Furniture Press, 2004), Spacious (Other Publications, 2003), If Not Metamorphic? (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), Audible Bio (Longhouse, 2003), In A Glass Box (Pressed Wafer, 2002) and several other artist's books. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Together with Evelyn Reilly she is editing a collection of essays by poets concerning poetry and ecological ethics titled, )((eco (lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor for Boog City as well as a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she designs and constructs homeopathic gardens.