Gary enjoys karate, basketball, and Aztec dancing. He serves as a volunteer English teacher at his church. He has a wife, Carolyn, a daughter, Mariko, and two cats, Corky and Sharkie. They all live in Berkeley.
Books:
Baseball in April and Other Stories
Big Bushy Mustache
Boys At Work
Buried Onions
Canto Familiar
The Cat's Meow
Chato and the Party Animals
Chato's Kitchen
Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology
Condor Dreams & Other Fictions
The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short Essays
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
A Fire in My Hands
Folk Wisdom of Mexico: Proverbios Y Dichos Mexicanos
Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems
Jesse
Junior College: Poems
Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections
Local News
My Little Car
A Natural Man
Neighborhood Odes
Nerdlandia
Nickel and Dime
Novio Boy
Off and Running
The Old Man and His Door
Pacific Crossing
Petty Crimes
Poetry Lover
The Pool Party
The Skirt
Snapshots from the Wedding
A Summer Life
Taking Sides
Too Many Tamales
Who Will Know Us?: New Poems
thanks to:
http://www.unomaha.edu/~unochlit/soto.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/soto/bio.htm
http://www.penguinputnam.com/catalog/yreader/authors/199_biography.html
www.amazon.com