Mariana Lin is a writer and editor whose practice spans poetry, fiction, and narrative voice, informed by more than twenty years of professional experience in writing and creative work. She began her career in New York, where she spent a decade writing and editing across magazines and cultural publications before being recruited by Apple, where she later served as a Creative Director and the principal writer shaping Siri’s voice and personality, crafting conversations with people around the world. Lin holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University, where she studied with Marvin Bell.
Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, RHINO, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, and other publications, and has been recognized with several poetry awards and a nomination for Best New Poets 2019. She has taught in the United States and Europe, given poetry readings in cultural spaces in Paris, and spoken on AI and creative language at TED Global Summit, UNESCO, and other conferences.
Her current projects explore silence, voice, and the creative force of the void.