Angie Chuang on KKUP

Out of Our Minds on KKUP

Out of Our Minds is the second longest running poetry radio show in the United States and airs on Wednesday nights from 8-9pm on KKUP Cupertino 91.5fm. The show is hosted by Rachelle Escamilla. Angie Chuang is an author and educator based in Washington, D.C. She is the author of The Four Words for Home (Willow Books, 2014), a duel memoir about an Afghan immigrant family and her own Chinese American family. The book was the winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Awards Grand Prize in Prose, and has won an Independent Publishers Awards Bronze Medal for Multicultural Nonfiction. It has also been shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize for Writing and the International Rubery Award. Angie is an associate professor of journalism at American University School of Communication. Her literary nonfiction writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Asian American Literary Review, Vela, and several editions of The Best Women's Travel Writing.