Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a Filipina American poet, writer, and independent scholar from the San Francisco Bay Area (unceded Ohlone land). She is a daughter of immigrants who grew up in a house with 12 people. She is the author of the poetry collections like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books, 2022) and microchips for millions (PAWA, Inc., 2016), along with two other chapbooks. She contributed three entries to The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. She is an earrings collector, an introvert, an avid reader, and a July Leo. She is working on a novel.

She is a 2023-2026 Lucas Arts Resident in Literary Arts at the Montalvo Arts Center. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL, an AWP Writer-to-Writer Mentee in fiction, the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, and a Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. She is a tenured Associate Professor of English at Skyline College where she works with community college students and directs the Honors Transfer Program. There, she received the Meyer Excellence in Teaching Award in 2023. She co-founded Santa Clara County’s Youth Poet Laureate Program as a chapter with Urban Word NYC, and she co-founded Sunday Jump Open Mic in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown.

She received a Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and she studied the Philippine History Special Collection archives in 2024. She will be a Mendel Fellow at Indiana University’s Lilly Library in 2025.