Frank Kensaku Saragosa's writing took top honors for fiction and essay in the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Awards. Saragosa writes of his experiences as a homeless San Diegan, struggling with addiction.
Detail of the front cover of the forthcoming PEN America anthology of work by incarcerated writers,"Variations on an Undisclosed Location: 2022 Prison Writing Awards Anthology," forthcoming Dec. 2022. Undated image.
Then he relapsed. In 2017, his drug use resulted in homelessness, and he lived on the streets of San Diego for the next few years until he was arrested.His nonfiction essay,"Caught Crossing, Caught Between — A Tale of Two Cities," chronicles the drug trade and homelessness on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, and unflinchingly recounts his role in that world.In June of 2022, I was arrested for bringing 3.
"I had all these memories of living on the streets, of getting high all the time, of the psychosis that comes with that, and of all the things I had to do to keep getting high, and — it was just, they would come out in dreams, they would come out in memories that would just intrude at these strange moments. So I just began writing them down, kind of in a journal," Saragosa said.
"All I can do is do my best to tell the truth, but then just acknowledge the fact that my work is just right at that place where fiction and nonfiction meet," Saragosa said.
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