Angie Sijun Lou
Poet & PhD Student
UC, Santa Cruz

Angie Sijun Lou is from Seattle and Shanghai. She is a PhD student in literature and creative writing at UC, Santa Cruz. In addition to writing and attending class, she is a mathematics instructor at San Quentin prison. Angie, along with fellow grad students, had been on strike for graduate student poverty. In February 2020, she and 58 graduate assistants were fired from their teaching positions for going on strike. She continues to write, sharing a few pieces she has been working on in the last year. They include some experimental fiction pieces and prose poetry.

Recorded: March 4, 2020