GWSS alum and affiliate faculty member Shuxuan Zhou (PhD 2017) has been awarded a 2025 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) grant from Artist Trust in the literary category. These annual awards provide project-based grants of $1,500 each to artists across Washington State. This year, Artist Trust distributed $97,500 to 65 recipients in what it described as “the most competitive GAP cohort in the program’s 36-year history.”
As noted in their Artist Trust bio, Zhou is “a multifaceted writer, researcher, and organizer bridging the Chinese- and English-speaking worlds.” Their nonfiction and creative practice “delve into the intricate dimensions of women’s and migrants’ labor, exploring themes such as navigating liminal spaces, (re)building homes, queering desires, and striving for personal and collective dreams.”
Zhou's 2024 book, From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State (University of Washington Press), investigates histories of labor and gender in contemporary China. Zhou also writes and performs music through Good Luck Rabbits, which will celebrate its EP release with a multilingual reading and performance at The Royal Room on Sunday, November 30 (doors 1:30 p.m.; show 2:30 p.m.).