Nghi Vo was born in central Illinois, and she retains a healthy respect of and love for corn mazes, scarecrows, and fifty-year floods. These days, she lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, which is less a lake than an inland sea that she is sure is just biding its time.
Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle, Lightspeed, and Fireside. Her short story, "Neither Witch nor Fairy" made the 2014 Tiptree Award Honor List. Nghi mostly writes about food, death, and family, but sometimes detours into blood, love, and rhetoric. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.
Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle, Lightspeed, and Fireside. Her short story, "Neither Witch nor Fairy" made the 2014 Tiptree Award Honor List. Nghi mostly writes about food, death, and family, but sometimes detours into blood, love, and rhetoric. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.
Awards: WFA (2024), Jackson (2022), Hugo (2021) see all
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
New and upcoming books
Series
Singing Hills Cycle
1. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020)
2. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020)
3. Into the Riverlands (2022)
4. Mammoths at the Gates (2023)
5. The Brides of High Hill (2024)
6. A Mouthful of Dust (2025)
1. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020)
2. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020)
3. Into the Riverlands (2022)
4. Mammoths at the Gates (2023)
5. The Brides of High Hill (2024)
6. A Mouthful of Dust (2025)
Novels
Collections
Series contributed to
Books containing stories by Nghi Vo
New Suns 2 (2023)
Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
(New Suns, book 2)
edited by
Nisi Shawl
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Nghi Vo recommends
Breakable Things (2022)
Cassandra Khaw
"Khaw takes the familiar and gives it a vicious cutting edge. Breakable Things is haunting, and in the best way, sneaky. It gets inside you, and when you least expect it, it strikes, leaving you bloodied on the floor unsure if you're laughing or crying."
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