Amy Uyematsu (1947–2023) was born in Pasadena and majored in mathematics at UCLA. Her first poetry collection, 30 Miles from J-Town, received the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. She published several other collections, including That Blue Trickster Time (What Books, 2022), Stone Bow Prayer, and The Yellow Door. Active in the development of Asian American studies at UCLA, Uyematsu coedited the widely used anthology Roots: An Asian American Reader.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Shamisen and Straw, poetry, in Spring 2022
- One Year Later: What to Fear More, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2021–2022
- This Hand, an ipoem, in Winter 2022
- A Practical Mom, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2020–2021
- Heat, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- From The Invention of Mathematics, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009