Jackie Wang

Jackie Wang is the author of the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (Nightboat, 2021), which was long-listed for the National Book Award; the critical essay collection Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018); and the chapbooks The Twitter Hive Mind Is Dreaming (Robocup Press, 2018) and Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious, 2016).

A researcher on race, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police, Wang was an assistant professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California and is currently an assistant professor in the department of literary arts at Brown University.