Tamiko Nimura’s A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake, an experimental memoir from a trifecta of perspectives: daughter, descendant, and writer, which the author weaves through familial and national history into the stories of countless Japanese American descendants reckoning with the violent removal and incarceration of their ancestors in concentration camps—and how such traumas echo and reveal themselves in their lives today, to Mike Baccam (University of Washington Press), by Amanda Orozco and Noelle Falcis Math at Transatlantic Literary Agency (North American Rights).  

Tamiko Nimura is an Asian American creative nonfiction writer living in Tacoma, Washington. She has degrees in English from UC Berkeley (BA) and the University of Washington, Seattle (MA, PhD). Her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Off Assignment, Narratively, The Rumpus, Full Grown People, Heron Tree, HYPHEN, Kartika Review, and Blue Cactus Press. She has essays in the anthologies Ghosts of Seattle Past (2018) and New California Writing (Heyday 2012). At UC Berkeley, she studied creative writing with Ishmael Reed and Gary Soto. She has read at the Looseleaf Reading series (Seattle), King’s Books and Blue Cactus Press (Tacoma), and the San Francisco Public Library. She is a 2016 Artists Up grant recipient and a 2019 GAP Award recipient.

She has been awarded a Tacoma Arts Commission Tacoma Artists Initiative Project grant (2021-22) for her memoir-in-progress, A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE. She was also awarded an AMOCAT Community Engagement Award for her artistic and community work in 2022.  

She is represented by Amanda Orozco and Noelle Falcis Math at Transatlantic Agency. 

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