ABOUT

Nina Li Coomes is a Japanese and American writer. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, 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.  In 2022, her essay on ramen and silent dining was included by Sohla El-Waylly in Best American Food Writing. In 2024, her manuscript titled “Half History” was long listed for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize.   She is represented by Annie Hwang at Ayesha Pande Literary, and has an MFA + MA in nonfiction from the Litowitz Program at Northwestern University.