Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian-American essayist based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England. His debut, Gay Bar, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and was named a book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Artforum, Spin and Vogue. Atherton Lin has contributed to The Paris Review, The Yale Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, the Guardian, Frieze, The Face, GQ, and more. He has been nominated for the Randy Shilts Award, National Magazine Award, Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and Jhalak Prize. He has lectured at Cornell University, University of Southern California, The Courtauld, Royal College of Art, Birkbeck University, and Uppsala Universitet. His sound essays can be heard on NTS Radio.