Accomplished writer and 2013 Penn State alum, Jami Nakamura Lin, will offer a reading as part of this year’s Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 14 in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium on the University Park campus.
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. The Night Parade was named a Best Book of 2023 by the Boston Globe and Vulture/New York Magazine, and 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, Electric Literature, 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, Yaddo, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, We Need Diverse Books, and the Illinois Arts Council, among others. She is a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation awardee and her work was shortlisted for the 2021 Chicago Review of Books Awards. She received her MFA in nonfiction from the Pennsylvania State University.
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