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Community Anthologies
“LA was where I came to understand myself, and where I came to learn from decades of organizing and Asian diaspora history in North America.”
About
Contributor
amy zhou
(they/she)
Amy Zhou 周纯 is a Han Chinese Canadian essayist, community planner, organizer and researcher currently located on unceded Ohlone land (Oakland, California). They have been published in Spacing Magazine, Harvard Urban Review, Journal for Civic Media, Berkeley Planning Journal, Knock LA, and Godz Rising. They were a member of Kearny Street Workshop’s 2022 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, a 2024 Periplus fellow, and 2025 Abode Summer Fellow. Their writing has received support from Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop, and Seventh Wave. Their writing is grounded in their work in housing justice, tenant organizing, movements of self-determination for BIPOC communities, and they explore the nexuses of East Asian North American identity, family, land, home and housing, and healing. Photocredit Jeffrey Xiong.
