Brian Komei Dempster

Brian Komei Dempster is the author of the poetry collections Seize (Four Way Books, 2020), cowinner of the 2020 Julie Suk Award, and Topaz (Four Way Books, 2013).

In 2023, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Dempster is a professor of rhetoric and language and codirector of the Center for Research, Artistic, and Scholarly Excellence at the University of San Francisco (CRASE). He lives in San Rafael, California.