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Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 20 years....
Foster, Sesshu
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