Tamiko Nimura

April 2025: One of the biggest pieces of news is that after over fourteen years of work, my family memoir is forthcoming from the University of Washington. It is called A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake. Please watch this space for more details as events unfold. 

RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS

2025

Move to Tacoma podcast, air date TBD

One Bellevue, One Book. “Writing Family, Writing Resistance.” King County Bellevue Public Library (8/2/25)

Tacoma Day of Remembrance, Washington State History Museum/Downtown on the Go (5/15/25)

Artist Trust Fellowship recipient! Washington State (4/8/25). Full 2025 announcement here, individual awardee page here.

Featured reader for The Gate of Memory launch, Elliott Bay Books, Seattle (4/25). I have a poem included in this Nikkei descendant anthology.

Featured speaker, Day of Remembrance with Tsuru for Solidarity and La Resistencia, Tacoma, Washington (2/25). Speech published here.

2024

Featured subject in the Sansei Granddaughters Journey exhibit, “Illuminating Strength.”

2023

”Writing About Family” (book launch and conversation with author Susan Ito), King’s Books, 11/12/23

Featured reader, Creative Colloquy Crawl (10/23)

Featured speaker, Day of Remembrance, “Remember and Resist,” Puyallup, Washington (2/23)  

2022

Panelist, “How Comics Frame History,” Seattle Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), 11/22)

Panelist, “Art and Memory: Preserving the Legacy of The Incarceration Through Art” Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAM Pilgrimages) (10/17/22)

2021

Densho/Seattle Public Library/Elliott Bay Books

2022

“ArtTown Tacoma: Tamiko Nimura” (profile)

Selected Press for We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

Tacoma News Tribune (5/8/21), “Tacoma author’s family history shapes graphic novel on resistance to WWII internment”

Newspaper

2020, “Tacoma Arts Month looks to connect people feeling isolated because of COVID-19 pandemic,” 10/12/20

Television

2022, “Japanese Exclusion,” Northwest Now, KBTC (air date 2/18/22)

2020, “Community Engagement Artists,” Cityline Tacoma (air date 10/30/20)

2020, “KBTC Profiles: Remembering Tacoma’s Nihonmachi,” KBTC Tacoma, air date 9/1/20 

Podcast Interviews

2022,  “Tamiko Nimura waxes rhapsodic,” We Art Tacoma podcast

2020, “Lift as You Climb,” Paw’d Defiance podcast 

2020 “Tamiko Nimura, Writer and Biographer of Senator Rosa Franklin,” We Art Tacoma podcast