Yosha Bourgea is a Sonoma County native who lives and writes in Sebastopol. A former journalist, he now teaches 6th and 8th grade English. Yosha is an irregular fixture on the local poetry scene, and he is published in various small magazines. He won the Grand Slam of the 2000 Actor's Theatre poetry slam series, and in 2002 his poem "Extra, Extra" won a local contest judged by U.S. Poets Laureate Billy Collins and Robert Hass.

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