San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo was born February 2, 1978. He was raised on the Suquamish reservation near Seattle, Washington and home schooled from the eighth grade onward. In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship to study writing and poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado where he studied with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger, among other poets. He has lived in San Francisco since 1999. In 2003 Ugly Duckling Presse published the first edition of his Selected Writings. It was followed in 2005 by a second revised and expanded edition. Other books include Death Race V.S.O.P. and Expensive Magic. His most recently collection, Stranger In Town, was published in the City Lights Spotlight Series in the fall of 2010. Sigo has given poetry readings at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, P.S. One Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Poetry Center, San Francisco Art Institute, and Beyond Baroque. He has collaborated with visual artists such as Colter Jacobsen, Frank Haines, Cecilia Dougherty, and Will Yackulic.