Sesshu foster biography template

PERSONAL:

Born in Los Angeles, CA.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Los Angeles, CA. Agent—c/o Author Mail, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA 94133.

CAREER:

Poet, novelist, educator.

Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School, Los Angeles, CA, composition and literature instructor, 1985—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

American Book Award (with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton), 1990, for Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry; finalist, PEN Center West Poetry Prize, 1996, for City Terrace: Field Manual;Top Shelf 2005 list, Village Voice, for Atomik Aztex.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton) Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry, West End Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1989.

City Terrace: Field Manual (poetry), Kaya Production (New York, NY), 1996.

Atomik Aztex (novel), City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 2005.

Contributor of poetry to numerous journals and anthologies.

SIDELIGHTS:

Sesshu Foster is a poet and novelist living in East