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Sakari Lacross was born February 5th, 1994, in Cleveland Ohio. Spending most of his childhood being raised in Flint Michigan, Sakari's mother moved him and his family to Arizona when he was 15. Sakari has been writing since he was nine years old, competing in his school's poetry contest and bimonthly writing events. Discovering all his true potential to write during his years he went to linden charter academy, Sakari won his first local poetry contest at Sam Garcia Western Avenue Library, located in Avondale Arizona. Sakari then published his first poetry collection, titled, PTSD.