Fiction. Asian American Studies. "Morningside Heights is a gritty and heartfelt insiders' take on a unique Manhattan neighborhood, a tough, no-nonsense environment where any young man would have to scramble to find himself"-Oscar Hijuelos. ". . .This collection of semi-autobiographical stories traverses the streets of New York, Makawao, and memory, using intimate details and tender riffs to invoke the spirit of time past, recall a community dispersed, and recreate the feeling of home, lost and found"-Nora Okja Keller. Tsujimoto was influenced by his teachers Joseph Heller and Donald Barthelme while an undergraduate at City College of New York. Tsujimoto is best known for his teacher texts: Teaching Poetry to Adolescents and Lighting Fires: How the Passionate Teacher Engages Adolescent Writers.

Author City: HONOLULU, HI USA

Joe Tsujimoto graduated (with honors) from City College of New York and the University of Hawai'i 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.