Amy Uyematsu is a Sansei from Los Angeles. Active in the early Asian American movement, she was a co-editor of UCLA's Roots: An Asian American Reader. Amy taught high school math for LA Unified Schools for 32 years. Her first poetry book with poems about growing up J-A in LA was aptly named 30 Miles from J-Town. Currently, she teaches a writing workshop at the Far East Lounge in LA's Little Tokyo.