Michell Lin wearing a jeweled nose ring, long purple earrings, and an orange blouse in front of a bright yellow background
Photo Credit: Mish Lapitan!

Michelle Lin is a poet and cultural worker passionate about building loving and liberating spaces for LGBTQ+ artists and artists of color. She co-hosts We Won’t Move: A Living Archive, a podcast from Kearny Street Workshop featuring conversations with Asian Pacific American artists whose stories shape the movements and dreams of San Francisco and the Bay Area. She is the author of A House Made of Water (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017), a lyrical examination on trauma and healing as a second generation daughter of immigrants. Michelle works to support immigrant and refugee artists as a Program Director at ARTogether. Learn more about her work at michellelinmakes.com.