One Bellevue, One Book: Writing Family, Writing Resistance Author Talk with Tamiko Nimura
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Aug 2, 2025 12pm - 1:30pm
Location
Bellevue Library/KCLS
1111 110th Ave NE
Details
Local author Tamiko Nimura will discuss her family ties to her graphic history, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, and her upcoming family memoir. This memoir includes her grandfather's fight against wartime imprisonment.
Tamiko Nimura is an Asian American creative nonfiction writer living in Tacoma, Washington. She has degrees in English from UC Berkeley (BA) and the University of Washington, Seattle (MA, PhD). Her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Off Assignment, Narratively, The Rumpus, Full Grown People, Heron Tree, HYPHEN, Kartika Review and Blue Cactus Press. She has essays in the anthologies Ghosts of Seattle Past (2018) and New California Writing (Heyday 2012). At UC Berkeley, she studied creative writing with Ishmael Reed and Gary Soto. She has read at the Looseleaf Reading series (Seattle), King’s Books and Blue Cactus Press (Tacoma), and the San Francisco Public Library. She is a 2016 Artists Up grant recipient and a 2019 GAP Award recipient.
She has been awarded a Tacoma Arts Commission Tacoma Artists Initiative Project grant (2021-22) for her memoir-in-progress, A Place for What We Lose. She was also awarded an AMOCAT Community Engagement Award for her artistic and community work in 2022.
Book signing follows.
Third Place Books will have books available for purchase.
Registration not required. Space is limited.
A One Bellevue, One Book program. Bringing Bellevue together to read, discuss and engage with one book, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, Tamiko F. Nimura, Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki.
Sponsored by the Memory Lab, the Mellon Foundation, and the KCLS Foundation.
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org
at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.
