Hi, I’m Nina Michiko Tam.
I’m a public-interest attorney and Yale Law School graduate working on civil rights, election law, and other issues that affect the most vulnerable in Houston, Texas. I’m also a writer: my debut novel TASTES LIKE SEEING GOD is forthcoming from Pamela Dorman Books/Penguin Random House!
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the space where the law meets literature,
the path to my debut and
the search for balance when writing and working.
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Civil-rights attorney and debut novelist. My newsletter, Literary Convictions, explores the intersection between literature and the law and how to write and work.