Jeremy Atherton Lin

Atherton Lin was raised in Saratoga, California. He attended Lynbrook High School and graduated from the theater department at UCLA.[10] He served as the inaugural Editorial Director of Surface Magazine, which was then based in San Francisco. After moving to the UK, he obtained the MA in Writing at the Royal College of Art in London.[11]

Atherton Lin's debut book Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (2021) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.[12] It was included in The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021.[13]

Atherton Lin's essay ‘The Wrong Daddy’ was a finalist for a National Magazine Award,[14] the first-ever such nomination for a piece published by The Yale Review in its two-centuries-plus history.[15][16] Atherton Lin profiled non-binary celebrities Sam Smith, Bimini Bon-Boulash and Mae Martin for British editions of GQ, traditionally a men’s magazine.[17][18][19][20] He has published essays and reviews in publications including The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Face and Index Magazine. He wrote the cover feature on Wolfgang Tillmans for the September 2022 issue of Frieze in advance of the artist’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.[21]

In 2022, Atherton Lin was featured in artist Every Ocean Hughes's durational performance at the Moderna Museet.[22] His sound essays have been broadcast by NTS Radio.[23]

Atherton Lin lives in St Leonards-on-Sea, England and Glendale, California.

• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Little, Brown, 2021, ISBN 9780316458757
• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Granta, 2021, ISBN 9781783785834
• Gay Bar: Perché Uscivamo La Notte, Minimum Fax, 2023, ISBN 9788833894614