Jami Nakamura Lin is the author of the illustrated speculative memoir THE NIGHT PARADE (Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2023), the winner of the 2024 Chicago Review of Books Award for Nonfiction. The Night Parade was named a Best Book of 2023 by Boston Globe and New York Magazine, and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, and Library Journal. Jami has received support from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts/Japan-US Friendship Commission, Folger Shakespeare Library, Macdowell, Yaddo, Sewanee, We Need Diverse Books, and the Illinois Arts Council. Her essays and stories have been published in The New York Times, Sewanee Review, and Passages North, among others. She teaches at StoryStudio Chicago and is working on a speculative novel.
