Rick Noguchi is the author of two collections of poetry The Wave He Caught (Pearl Editions 1995) and The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo (University of Pittsburgh Press 1996) and a children’s book Flowers from Mariko (Lee & Low 2001) co-written with Deneen Jenks. Rick received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach where he majored in English and minored in American Indian Studies. His work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies including Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation; Place as Purpose: Poetry from the Western States; Motion: American Sports Poems; American Poetry: The Next Generation; The New Young American Poets: An Anthology; and Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poets. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Arizona State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. Rick currently serves as a senior program officer in the arts at The James Irvine Foundation.