Tony Koji Wallin-Sato
Contributor
Tony Koji Wallin-Sato is a multicultural Nisei writer who works with currently and formerly incarcerated students in higher education through Project Rebound. He is the Prison Education Coordinator for CSU Long Beach, a lecturer in the Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Cal Poly Humboldt, and an in-prison teaching artist with the William James Association. His chapbook, Hyouhakusha: Desolate Travels of a Junkie on the Road, was published through Cold River Press and his first book of poems, Bamboo on the Tracks: Sakura Snow and Colt Peacemaker (2024, Finishing Line Press) was selected by John Yau for the 2022 Robert Creeley Memorial Award. His second book of poems, Okaerinasai, was published in October 2024 through Wet Cement Press. His third book of poetry is forthcoming from Kaya Press. His poetry, photography, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Yellow Medicine Review, LIT Magazine, New Delta Review, and Haymarket Books’ Asian American and Pacific Islander Anthology We the Gathered Heat. He is a graduate of Sacramento City College, Humboldt State, and CSU Long Beach. In September, he begins a PhD program at UW in Seattle.
