Natasha Stagg and Jackie Wang

Tuesday, November 28
Doors: 7pm
Reading: 7:30pm

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Semiotext(e) and the Poetic Research Bureau present a night of readings and conversation at 2220 Arts+Archives with writers Natasha Stagg and Jackie Wang. Both writers have new collections published by Semiotext(e) this fall: Jackie Wang's intellectual biography Alien Daughter Walk into the Sun and Natasha Stagg's Artless: Stories 2019-2023.

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Natasha Stagg is a writer, brand consultant, and editor. She has published three books with Semiotext(e): Surveys (2016), Sleeveless (2019), and Artless (2023). She lives and works in New York City.

Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and assistant professor of American studies & ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where she researches race, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018) and the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (Nightboat Books, 2021, National Book Award Finalist). Her current book project, The Carceral Laboratory: The Rise of High-Tech Prisons and Police, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.