Angel Sutjipto resides on Lenapehoking, otherwise known as New York City. They are a CUNY BA alum. After completing their undergraduate degree, they worked in the human rights field, where they participated in field-research on the LGBTQI+ community in Kampala, Uganda for the SMUG v. Lively case and contributed research to the 2017 Blasphemy Law report, published by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. For the past decade, they have worked serving immigrant and LGBTQI+ communities at various non-profits in NYC.

Outside of work, they are a creative non-fiction writer. Their works have been published in Briarpatch Magazine and Somewhere We Are Human, an anthology edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca. Their co-authored work has been published in Decolonial Feminist Genealogies and Futures, edited by Annie Isabel Fukushima and K. Melchor Quick Hall.