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Micah Tasaka is a queer, non-binary, mixed Japanese poet, multidisciplinary artist, reiki master, and magick maker from the Inland Empire, California.

Micah grew up in the hills of Colton, California, and spent much of their childhood getting dirt under their nails and screaming into water tanks. They received their undergraduate degree in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside. In 2014, Micah created their first chapbook, Whales in the Water Tank,  a hand-made, bedazzled zine. They released their first full-length manuscript, Expansions, on Jamii Publishing in 2017. The book is available for purchase here. You can also read more of Micah’s work here.

From 2018 until 2020, Micah lived in the small seaside town of Mihama in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, working as a middle school English teacher on the JET program. While living in their ancestral homeland, Micah was met with countless new challenges, tastes, sounds, and healings. Read more about Micah’s experiences abroad here.

In the summer of 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic, Micah returned to Southern California. Currently, Micah is working on providing healing services to their communities and working as co-editor of an Inland Empire based publisher, innateDIVINITYbooks.