Tony Wallin-Sato

T. William Wallin-sato is a Japanese-American who works with formerly and
currently incarcerated individuals in higher education. He is also a freelance journalist covering the criminal justice system through the lens of his own incarcerated experience as well as an MFA Creative Writing student at CSULB. He can either be found near water or back alleys skipping along to harmonica notes. He studies Zen Buddhism in Northern California and has been published in Cold River Press, Zaum, The Adelaide Anthology, and Susurrus. He was the winner of the Jody Stultz Award for Poetry in the 2020 edition of Toyon Literary Magazine and had his first chapbook of poems, Hyouhakusha: Desolate Travels of a Junkie on the Road,
published this summer through Cold River Press. He currently spends his time living between Humboldt County and Long Beach with his wife and two cats.