Troy Osaki is a Filipino Japanese poet, organizer, and attorney. A three-time grand slam poetry champion, he’s received fellowships from Kundiman, Artist Trust, and the Poetry Foundation. His work appears in Poetry, The Missouri Review, The Offing, and The Gate of Memory (Haymarket Books, 2025), an anthology by descendants of Nikkei wartime incarceration. A member of the National Lawyers Guild, he earned his Juris Doctor from Seattle University School of Law, where he interned at Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration for youth in King County. He lives in Seattle, WA, where his great-grandpa was the Buddhist minister at the Seattle Buddhist Temple during World War II.
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