SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
POETRY
« MÀ : Scold », Gulf Coast, Winter 2022
« An Elephant Dreams of a Banana », Prairie Schooner, 2022
« One Night in Melchior Islands », RHINO, 2021
« Beginner’s Luck », Mississippi Review, 2016
« Mama », New Guard Literary Review, 2016
ESSAY / CREATIVE NON-FICTION
« Building Character: Writing Backstory for Our AI », The Paris Review · September 2020
« How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us », The Paris Review · May 2018
« Absurdist Dialogues with Siri », The Paris Review · February 2018
RESEARCH
« Generating Authenticity in Automated Work », Journal of Experimental Psychology · March 2022, co-authored with Arthur S. Jago, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Milgard School of Business, and Glenn Carroll, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Stanford Business School
SELECTED TALKS AND READINGS
« Voice », « Tongue », « Vox Vocis », Vessel for Soul exposition, Galerie Libre Est l’Art · Paris, France · November 2023
« Mirror », Full Circle exposition, EST Galerie · Paris, France · April 2023
« The Art and Humanity of AI », Brighton Literary Festival · Brighton, UK · May 2022
« Mariana Lin on Creativity and Self-Care in Trying Times », Gratitribe by Christopher Ategeka · Podcast · Spotify · July 2020
« The Poetic Robot », UNESCO La Ciudad de las Ideas · Mexico City, Mexico · November 2019
« How to Bring AI Personalities to Life », TED Global Summit · Edinburgh, Scotland · July, 2019
« Culture and Storytelling in the Age of AI», AI For Good Global Summit · United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland · May 2019
AWARDS
« Eko in Amsterdam », Nomination Best New Poets, 2019
« Beginner’s Luck », Mississippi Review, Poetry Finalist 2016
« Mama », New Guard Literary Review, Finalist Knightville Poetry Prize, 2016
SELECTED TEACHING & ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT
My teaching centers on voice and character, informed by literary practice and interdisciplinary work shaping conversational language for AI, guided by an interest in how the evolution of language shapes human experience.
University of Zurich · Visiting Lecturer · 2024. Led seminar to PhD students on character, psyche, and voice — exploring how shifts in language alter narrative consciousness in human conversations.
INSEAD · Guest Lecturer · 2024. Spoke on AI narrative voice and the ways algorithmic language can transform human modes of speaking, listening, and imagining.
Stanford University, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design · Co-Instructor · 2020. Guided students in designing characters and conversations, examining how personality can shape the contours of human expression.
Stanford University, MediaX Institute · Panelist · 2017–2018. Discussed creativity, narrative voice, and the interplay between human expression and emerging technologies.
University of California, Berkeley · Graduate Student Instructor · 2002. Led a seminar on Eastern and Western approaches to communication and conflict, considering how linguistic and philosophical systems affect identity and experience.