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Richard Oyama has a Master’s degree in English, Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. His work has appeared in Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, The Nuyorasian Anthology, Breaking Silence, Dissident Song, A Gift of Tongues (University of Georgia Press, 1987), Malpais Review, Adobe Walls, and other small literary magazines and small-press books. The Country They Know (Neuma Books, 2005) is his first collection of poetry.
He has taught English and Ethnic Studies at the California College of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, University of New Mexico, San Francisco Art Institute, and California State University, Hayward. From 1974 to 79 he was coordinator of the writers workshop of Basement Workshop, an Asian American arts organization in New York's Chinatown. He is currently working on a second volume of poetry and his first novel, The Orphaned.
Updated June 2012