Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (Nightboat, 2021), which was a finalist 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). Her research is on racial capitalism, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police.