Theresa Lin was recently named a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Literary Nonfiction. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the De Alba Fellowship for an excerpt of her novel manuscript and an Undergraduate Writing Program teaching fellowship. She received her BA in English Literature and Psychology at Rutgers University and was awarded the English Department Faculty Prize for best undergraduate literary essay as well as the Mitchell Adelman Scholarship for Creative Writing, the Edna Herzberg Prize in Fiction, and the Evelyn Hamilton Prize in Fiction. She was a Bard College Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellow and a Convent Arts Fellow. She teaches at The Cooper Union and regularly offers classes through The Center for Fiction and 92NY.

Representation: Mina Hamedi at Janklow & Nesbit

Photo Credit: Ellie Patterson @eloisephotography