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Nghi Vo


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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.
 

Awards: WFA (2024), Jackson (2022), Hugo (2021)  see all

Genres: Fantasy, Horror
 
Novels
   Siren Queen (2022)
   The City in Glass (2024)
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Collections
   Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora (2020) (with others)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Nghi Vo
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The Year's Best Fantasy: Volume 3 (2024)
(Year's Best Fantasy , book 3)
edited by
Paula Guran
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 57 (2024)
March/April 2024
(Uncanny Magazine, book 57)
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New Suns 2 (2023)
Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
(New Suns, book 2)
edited by
Nisi Shawl

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Awards
2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood
2022 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette : What the Dead Know
2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella : The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Award nominations
2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Mammoths at the Gates
2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction (shortlist) : Mammoths at the Gates
2024 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Mammoths at the Gates
2024 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Mammoths at the Gates
2024 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : On the Fox Roads
2024 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Mammoths at the Gates
2024 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : On the Fox Roads
2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Siren Queen
2023 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Into the Riverlands
2023 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Siren Queen
2023 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel (nominee) : Siren Queen
2023 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Into the Riverlands
2022 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : The Chosen and the Beautiful
2021 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Empress of Salt and Fortune


Nghi Vo recommends
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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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