I met Lan Samantha Chang in 2019 when I took a short vacation to Iowa City, IA, home to the University of Iowa, known for its football team, the Hawkeyes, its speech-language pathology program, and its highly celebrated graduate program in creative writing, the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
I used to be a Messenger Clerk at the Cahuenga Branch Library many years ago, still undecided about being a librarian.