Joe Tsujimoto, Morningside Heights, at Punahou

Joe Tsujimoto reads from his collection of short stories that chronicles the life of a Japanese American born on the edge of Harlem after his family moved to New York following internment during World War II.

Joe Tsujimoto graduated (with honors) from City College of New York and the University of Hawaiʻi and taught at Taconic Prison in New York. He published a national award-winning book on creative writing strategies for students, Teaching Poetry Writing to Adolescents, as well as the teacher text Lighting Fires: How the Passionate Teacher Engages Adolescent Writers. He has been keynote speaker at educational conferences and has read his work around the country; he is currently a teacher at Punahou School in Honolulu.