ABOUT
Nina Li Coomes is a Japanese and American writer. She was born in Nagoya, and currently resides in Chicago, where she is a student at the Litowitz MFA & MA in nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Guernica and Catapult, among other places. In 2018 she was an Aspen Summer Words Fellow in Memoir, in 2019 a Tin House Scholar, and in 2022 was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Chicago Review of Books Award, and was listed as a Notable Mention in Best American Travel Writing 2020. She is a film reviewer and regular contributor at the Chicago READER. She is represented by Annie Hwang at Ayesha Pande Literary.