Born on the island of Taïwan, Mariana Lin is a poet and writer, whose work has appeared in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, RHINO, New York Magazine, and The Paris Review. She has read at expositions such as Vessel for Soul at Galerie Libre Est l’Art and Full Circle at EST Galerie in Paris.
Mariana was a former creative director at Apple, in global marketing and then as the principal writer behind Siri (the OG AI). Mariana has also developed AI characters for Hanson Robotics’ Sophia, Bose, BMW and Renault and is regarded as the global leader in AI character creation and dialogue writing. She has given a TED Global Summit talk, and has spoken at UNESCO and other conferences. She has also taught on this subject at Stanford Design School and University of Zurich.
She holds a BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College, a JD from Berkeley Law School, and an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. Mariana is also the loving and proud mother to a son with 18th chromosome disorder.