Lawrence Matsuda

Lawrence Matsuda is a poet and writer who was born in the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho during World War II. His family was among the roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in that period. His work deals closely with that history. He has published poetry collections including A Cold Wind from Idaho (2010) and Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner (2014). He also completed a novel based on his mother's wartime experience, titled My Name Is Not Viola. His poem for Raven Chronicles Press's Take A Stand anthology was about the present-day politics of immigration.