Amy UyematsuAmy Uyematsu is a sansei (third-generation Japanese American) poet and teacher from Los Angeles. She has six published collections - the most recent being That Blue Trickster Time (What Books Press, 2022). Her first poetry collection, 30 Miles from JTown, won the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Amy taught high school math for LA Unified Schools for 32 years. Active in Asian American Studies when it first emerged in the late 60s, she was co-editor of the widely-used UCLA anthology, Roots: An Asian American Reader. Read More Read Less