ARTHUR TULEE as JUNIOR ONE

Arthur Tulee is the eighth child of 10. He is the fifth son of seven and he has three older sisters. Arthur was a child in Wellpinit, Wash., on the Spokane Indian Reservation, his father having worked in the Bureau of Indian Affairs on several Indian reservations but retired from the Spokane rez. In his 13th year, the family moved to their homeland on the Yakama Indian Reservation. Being both a veiled and blatant institutionally racist border town, Toppenish, Wash., was not a good environment for the Indian adolescent. Arthur turned to creative writing, especially poetry, and during high school planned to major in English at Washington State University in Pullman. He never wavered in his commitment to writing, communication and understanding; he never changed majors. Arthur graduated from Washington State in the spring of 1990 and moved to Seattle, where he has lived and worked since. He has published a variety of poems in various regional and national poetry journals, ZYZZYVA being the most prominent.