Jamie Li is a writer based in San Diego, CA
About
she/her/她
Born in Guangdong, China and raised in Seattle, Jamie Li 李嘉铭 now lives in Southern California. As the illegal second child born under China’s One-Child Policy, themes such as family (dis)connection, sacrifice, and irreverence permeate her work.She holds a BA from Dartmouth College and is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she also serves as Associate Managing Editor for its literary magazine, Hunger Mountain.Before pursuing her MFA, she built a decade-long career in Silicon Valley during the heyday of tech optimism. Much of this humorous experience and the characters she’s met along the way tend to find their way into her writing.A VONA/Voices alum, she has published in Slant’d Magazine, Mangoprism, Lit Mag News and others. She is working on her first novel.
Selected Work
Writing
The Seasons as Creative Guidance: A Conversation with Jacqueline Suskin — Hunger Mountain — Dec 2023
Could a Spreadsheet—Yes, a Spreadsheet—Improve Your Writing? — Lit Mag News — Apr 2024
Product Marketing should be using storytelling at every stage of the product life cycle, here’s why — Olivine Marketing — Jul 2022
Una Aventura en Un Supermercado — Flores De Nieve — Jun 2022
To Be Is to Beam — Mangoprism — Sep 2021
Ramentality — Ramen Forever: An Artist’s Guide to Ramen — Jan 2021
Food From Rough Hands, With Love — Slant’d Magazine — Jan 2017
Storytelling & facilitation
Facilitator — “We Have What We Need to Flourish” event at Grist — Mar 2022
Pitch coach — ICA Fund's annual Accelerator Pitch event — Oct 2021
Facilitator for the “Grief Medicine” event at Food Culture Collective — Jun 2021
Facilitator — “Listening to Black Leaders” event at Food Culture Collective — Aug-Sep 2020
Facilitator — “Why Inclusion Matters to Me” storytelling workshop at Walmart — Sep 2020
Awards & recognition
Finalist — WOW! Women on Writing Spring Flash Fiction Contest — Jul 2024
Fellow — VONA/Voices — Jun 2024
Featured guest — Ep. 96: Vermont College of Fine Arts — MFA Writers Podcast — Feb 2024
Contact
Reach out if you want to talk about the writing life, what books you're reading, Kali Uchis, and quitting your corporate job to pursue art.
📸 Portrait by Ariana Pearl
📸 Reading @ MOCA by Amy Mai Photography
