Q LIN

Q. Lin is a writer, poet, educator, and mother of four.

Her writing began with They Fired Me, I Rehired Myself, a personal account of redundancy, rebuilding, and finding her way back to her own voice.

That experience led her to reflect more deeply on leadership, institutions, responsibility, and the ways people make decisions inside systems that are constantly changing. Those questions later developed into Holding Judgment: Staying Human in Systems That Keep Moving Without Us, published under her full name.

Since then, her writing has continued to widen — moving between memoir, reflective nonfiction, poetry, and guided journals, and returning often to ordinary life, memory, family, work, change, and the small things that are easy to overlook.

Much of what she writes begins with something close at hand: a conversation, a room, a walk, a cup of coffee — and the thought that follows.