Photo Credit: Anthony Le
Marisa Lin (she/they) is a poet, policy researcher, and Minnesota native.
Her work is published or forthcoming in Poetry South, Porter House Review, Cimarron Review, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day. Their debut poetry chapbook, Dream Elevator, was published by Kernpunkt Press (2024).
In 2023, Marisa was awarded fellowships by the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, Roots Wounds Words, and Kearny Street Workshop. They have previously attended workshops with the VONA, Community of Writers, and the Kenyon Review.
Marisa graduates with a Masters Degree in Public Policy from UC Berkeley in 2024.
DREAM ELEVATOR
Kernpunkt Press, 2024
In this stunning debut chapbook, Marisa Lin delivers a vision that transcends distance and memory to examine race, gender, daughterhood, and the body politic. Drawing from diasporic themes, Dream Elevator expertly braids surrealist elements as it moves through streams, juxtapositions, linguistic and nonlinguistic devices, “orphaned memories, loose curses, [and] wandering phantoms” to render images that are unflinching, dissonant and spellbinding. These poems are a testament to Lin’s remarkable control of language, and how so much is “changed in small spaces.”
—Aileen Cassinetto, Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow
Cover art: Salome Grasland