Career
Growing up in Southern California, Uyematsu was torn between the Japanese culture of her family and the American culture of her environment, a conflict which has deeply influenced her writing and poetry. She penned the essay "The Emergence of Yellow Power" in 1969 (for the Japanese-American journal Gidra), an assertion of Asian-American identity influenced by the consciousness-raising theories of Black Power. Uyematsu has published four poetry books
She is now a high school math teacher and many of her poems reflect elements of math and quote mathematic equations.