Tamiko Nimura

Tamiko Nimura ’95 has just published a memoir called A Place For What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake (University of Washington Press, 2026). In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly calls her book a “gut-wrenching work of intergenerational dialogue,” and says that “Nimura braids passages from her late father’s unpublished memoir of growing up in California’s Tule Lake Japanese-American concentration camp during WWII with her own reflections on the text. . . . [A] memorable duet.” Among other projects in Japanese American history and literature, Nimura also worked with the Oral History Center at the Bancroft Library, recording a 2024 interview titled “Intergenerational Love, Literature, and Public History.”