Jami Nakamura Lin

Jami Nakamura Lin is the author of the illustrated speculative memoir The Night Parade (Mariner Books/HarperCollins), a Chicago Review of Books Award finalist and a Boston Globe Best Book of 2023. A former Catapult columnist, she’s been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Passages North, and other publications. She has received fellowships and support from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Macdowell, Yaddo, We Need Diverse Books, Folger Shakespeare Library, and more. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Pennsylvania State University and lives in the Chicago area.