Saeri Plagmann

Fellow, Community Outreach

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.


Articles by Saeri Plagmann

Thursday June 1

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…

Thursday March 9

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.