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Sesshu Foster

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Sesshu Foster

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Full Name: Sesshu Foster
Born: April 5, 1957
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation: Author, Poet, Educator
Nationality: American
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Biography

Sesshu Foster is a Japanese-American poet, novelist, and teacher of white and Nisei descent. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has taught composition and literature in East LA since 1985. He has also taught at the University of Iowa, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California Santa Cruz, and the Jack Kerouac School's Summer Writing Program. He was in residence at California State University, Los Angeles.

Foster's work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His work has received numerous awards, including two American Book Awards, the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry, and the Believer Book Award.


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