Troy Osaki

Troy Osaki is the grandson of Filipino and Japanese immigrants. A three-time grand slam poetry champion and recipient of grant awards from Artist Trust and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, he has earned fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House, and the Jack Straw Cultural Center. His poetry has appeared in Crazyhorse the Margins, Muzzle Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Seattle University School of Law where he interned at Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration for youth in King County. He lives on occupied Duwamish land known as Seattle, WA.