Tony Koji Wallin-Sato is a justice-impacted scholar and multicultural Nisei writer. He is a facilitator for the Zen In Prisons (ZIP) group, an in-prison teaching artist with the William James Association, a lecturer in the CRGS department at Cal Poly Humboldt, and a PhD student in the Communication program at the University of Washington, Seattle. His first book of poems, Bamboo on the Tracks (Finishing Line Press), was selected by John Yau for the 2022 Robert Creeley Award, and his second book of poems, Okaerinasai (Wet Cement Press), was a finalist for the 2024 Big Other Reader's Choice Award. His forthcoming book will be published through Kaya Press.