Troy Osaki

Troy Osaki is the grandson of Filipino immigrants and the great-grandson of Japanese immigrants. A three-time grand slam poetry champion, Osaki earned fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House, and the Jack Straw Cultural Center and received grant support from 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Osaki is a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, the Margins, Muzzle magazine, Poetry Northwest, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. Osaki holds a law degree from the Seattle University School of Law, where he interned at Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration for youth in King County. He organizes for national democracy in the Philippines while living in Seattle, Washington.