2025 - Jeremy Atherton Lin
Jeremy Atherton Lin is an American essayist known for writing about gay culture and alienation, based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England.
His work appears in numerous places including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Yale Review, for which he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He has reviewed fiction for the Guardian and the Washington Post. His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio.
Jeremy's debut Gay Bar, a New York Times Top Book of 2021 and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, was called 'a rich tapestry' by Vanity Fair and 'an absolute tour de force' by Maggie Nelson. His next, Deep House, to be published in June 2025, recounts his binational relationship before same-sex marriage, intimately examining a domesticity of illicit cohabitation while unlocking doors to a lineage of outlaw lovers.
During his residency at Passa Porta, Jeremy will be developing School, a remembrance of his youth in Silicon Valley. Like previous work, it is a collage of contemporary cultural references and centuries-spanning history, in which Jeremy considers the convergence and dispersal of his group of Asian American friends alongside social structures and natural cluster formations that predate the colonization of California and the dawn of the internet.