Janice Lobo Sapigao

Janice Lobo Sapigao is a Filipina American writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a daughter of immigrants who grew up in a house with 12 people. She has written the poetry books microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2016), like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2022) as well as two other chapbooks. She was a Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is an Associate Professor of English at Skyline College. She co-founded the long-running Sunday Jump Open Mic in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown in 2013, and she founded the Santa Clara County Youth Poet Laureate Program when she was the county Poet Laureate from 2020-2021. She is an earrings collector, an introvert, an avid reader, and a July Leo.