Tamiko Nimura

Tamiko Nimura is an award-winning Asian American (Japanese/Filipina) creative non-fiction writer and public historian in Tacoma, Washington. A two-time VONA Voices Fellow and a 2024 Seventh Wave Resident, she is the co-author of the graphic novel We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration (2021). Her words and work appear in a variety of outlets, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Smithsonian Magazine, The Rumpus, and Zocalo Public Square. She is a longtime contributor to Discover Nikkei and Seattle’s International Examiner. Find her on Instagram at @tamikonimura, on X @TamikoN, and her website, http://www.tamikonimura.net.