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Nina Michiko Tam is a Japanese- and Chinese-American writer who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.

Tastes Like Seeing God, her debut novel, is forthcoming from Pamela Dorman Books/Penguin Random House.

Her work has received support and recognition from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Fractured Lit, The Masters Review, and others. A graduate of Yale Law School, by day she works as a civil-rights attorney in Houston, Texas.

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