Jami Nakamura Lin is the author of the speculative memoir The Night Parade (illustrated by her sister Cori Nakamura Lin), published by Mariner Books/HarperCollins (and Scribe UK). The Night Parade won the 2024 Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction and was named a Best Book of 2023 by the Boston Globe and Vulture/New York Magazine. It was given starred reviews by Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews.

Her work interrogates mythology, monstrosity, madness, and motherhood, and is influenced by Japanese, Taiwanese, and Okinawan folklore.

She is a former Catapult essay columnist, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Sewanee Review, Good Housekeeping, Passages North, and other publications. She has received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts / Japan-US Friendship Commission, Folger Shakespeare Library, Macdowell, Yaddo, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, We Need Diverse Books, and the Illinois Arts Council, among others. She is a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation awardee, and received her MFA in nonfiction from the Pennsylvania State University.

After many years working in library readers’ services and editing at Anti-Racism Daily, she now teaches at StoryStudio Chicago and other community organizations. She lives with her family outside Chicago, and is currently working on a speculative novel.