Mariana Lin is a writer, poet, and creative director. Published in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, RHINO, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology, her work has earned honors from the Mississippi Review Prize, the Knightville Poetry Prize and a nomination for Best New Poets.
A pioneer in AI narrative, she served as a creative director at Apple and the principal writer behind Siri, initiating over twelve years of crafting human-machine dialogue and probing the frontiers of voice and consciousness. Her narrative work bridges ancient myth and emerging technology—from architecting worlds and character minds to directing global cinematic tributes to the individual creative spirit.
Lin holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University and a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law. She teaches and speaks on language, creativity, and artificial intelligence, with engagements at Stanford University, INSEAD (Fontainebleau), the University of Zurich, UNESCO, and the United Nations. Working across English, French, Mandarin, and Ancient Greek, her linguistic practice informs her exploration of communication.
Inspired by her son Jacob, who lives with a rare 18th chromosome condition, and their shared use of augmentative communication, her work considers presence, silence, voice, and the limits and joys of language.