Lark Omura is a mixed Japanese/white writer, born and raised on the island of Maui, and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY.
Her work spans geographies, and often explores patriarchy, labor, longing, and the concept of “home” within the context of capitalism and settler colonialism. She has received fellowships and support from the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley, Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA), Winter Tangerine, and Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab.
Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, Muzzle Magazine, and The Hawai’i Review, among other places.
She holds an MFA in poetry from Rutgers University-Newark.