Jami Nakamura Lin is a Japanese Taiwanese Okinawan American author based outside Chicago. 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 is a 2022 Sustainable Arts Foundation finalist and her work was shortlisted for the 2021 Chicago Review of Books Awards. She received her MFA in nonfiction from the Pennsylvania State University. https://jaminakamuralin.com/the-night-parade/