Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian American essayist described in Time Out as ‘one of the contemporary queer canon’s biggest talents.’ He is the author of the bestseller Deep House, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Book of 2025 and recipient of a PROSE Award. His debut Gay Bar was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.

His work has also been shortlisted for the Randy Shilts Award, Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, National Magazine Award and Lambda Literary Award, and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. In French translation, his work has been awarded the Prix du Roman Gay Découverte and nominated for the Prix Sade.

Jeremy’s essays appear in numerous places including The Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Yale Review, from which he was anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. His cover profiles include Sam Smith for GQ, Jeremy O Harris for Fantastic Man and Wolfgang Tillmans for Frieze. He has written for institutions such as the National Trust and Tate. He has appeared in plays and art performances at sites including the University of California, Los Angeles and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio.

Jeremy is primarily based in East Sussex, England, where he is assisting his husband with opening The Waves, an independent bookshop.