Nora Hikari

Nora Hikari (she/her) is a disabled Chinese and Japanese transgender poet and artist based in Philadelphia. She was a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow, and her work has been published in Ploughshares, Palette Poetry, Foglifter, The Journal, The Washington Square Review, and others. Her hybrid fiction, KISS ME FAST, was featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 for 2023. Her first full-length collection, Still My Father's Son, is forthcoming at Sundress Publications in 2025. Her second full-length collection, THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSSEXUAL CALENDAR, is forthcoming at Game Over Books, also in 2025. Nora Hikari can be found on twitter and instagram at @system_wires