Saeri Plagmann is a Community Outreach Gap Year Fellow at PEN America. She is a recent graduate from UC Santa Barbara with degrees in Asian American Studies and Japanese, and a minor in Professional Writing for Civic Engagement. She has a deep interest in racial justice, specifically in the context of panethnic solidarity, which is what her senior research thesis was based upon. Her plans for the future are to go to graduate school to study public policy and work in the nonprofit sector for racial and social justice issues.
Saeri Plagmann
Fellow, Community Outreach
Articles by Saeri Plagmann
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Grace E. Lavery
In Pleasure and Efficacy, trans activist and scholar Grace Lavery dissects a myriad of different genres in the modern period to talk about what transness means, and what transitioning actually…
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Monica Youn
The poem doesn’t live for me until it reaches the mind of the reader, as if the poem is a musical composition and the reader is both the musician and the instrument.