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Nino Cipri


USA flag (b.1985)

Nino Cipri is a queer and genderqueer writer living in Chicago. Nino is a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers Workshop, which they attended with the help of an Illinois Arts Council Professional Development grant. Their writing has been published in Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Betwixt, Daily Science Fiction, In The Fray, Autostraddle, and Gozamos. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a backstage theater tech. Nino has also worked as a farmhand, bike mechanic, barista, mail clerk, dishwasher, bookseller, and gas station attendant.
 

Awards: BFA (2022)  see all

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
November 2024

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Dead Girls Don't Dream
 
Series
LitenVerse
   1. Finna (2020)
   2. Defekt (2021)
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Novels
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Collections
   Homesick (2019)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Nino Cipri
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Far Out (2021)
Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
edited by
Paula Guran
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Transcendent 4 (2019)
(Transcendent, book 4)
edited by
H Pueyo and Bogi Takács

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Awards
2022 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella : Defekt

Award nominations
2022 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Defekt
2021 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Defekt
2021 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Finna
2021 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Finna
2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Finna
2020 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Homesick
2020 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : Homesick


Nino Cipri recommends
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We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories (2022)
Margaret Killjoy
"I always feel such relief and recognition reading one of Margaret Killjoy's stories. Here there are punks and monsters and orcs and the always-approaching apocalypse, and none of the alienating niceties of middle-class aspirations. She's not writing nice stories about nice people. It's all hope and hunger and dirt under your fingernails instead. Thank f#$%."
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The Four Profound Weaves (2020)
(Birdverse, book 1)
R B Lemberg
"Reading the first pages of The Four Profound Weaves feels like being invited into the home of a beautiful stranger. As you sit with these characters and come to know them, you too will feel know. In reading this story about recognition and transformation, I felt recognized and transformed. It’s a fantastic alchemy on Lemberg’s part, and their love and labor shines off the page. I don’t know any writer that could so skillfully take me apart with a story, or put me back together with such care. This was a story I didn’t know I desperately needed."

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