Nghi Vo (born December 4, 1981) is an American author of short stories, novellas, and novels.[1] Vo's fantasy novella The Empress of Salt and Fortune has received acclaim and won the Hugo Award for Best Novella and the IAFA Crawford Award.
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| Born | December 4, 1981 Peoria, Illinois, U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
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Biography
editVo was born in Peoria, Illinois, where she lived until attending college at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[2] In 2007 she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan.[1][2] She defines her sexuality as queer.[3]
Vo's first published short story was "Gift of Flight" in 2007, after which she published a number of short stories in various media.[2] In 2020 Vo published the novella The Empress of Salt and Fortune, which won the Hugo Award for Best Novella[4][5] and the 2021 IAFA Crawford Award.[6] The book was also a finalist for the Locus and the Ignyte Award. It was followed by When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain. The novellas are part of the Singing Hills Cycle, with three more novellas having been acquired for Tor.com.[7] Since the deal, Into the Riverlands has been published and Mammoths at the Gates was released in 2023. The novellas can be read in any order.[8]
Her debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful, was published in 2021.[7] The novel is a queer fantasy adaptation of The Great Gatsby which reimagines the character of Jordan Baker as a woman of Vietnamese descent who was taken to Louisville as a young child and raised by a wealthy, white American family.[9][10] Vo's second novel, Siren Queen, an urban fantasy set in pre-Code Hollywood, was released in May 2022.[2][11]
Bibliography
editNovellas
edit- The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020)
- When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020)
- Into the Riverlands (2022)
- Mammoths at the Gates (2023)
- The Brides of High Hill (2024)
Novels
edit- The Chosen and the Beautiful (2021)
- Siren Queen (2022)
- The City in Glass (2024)
- Don't Sleep with the Dead (2025) Companion novel to The Chosen and the Beautiful
References
edit- ^ a b "About". Nghi Vo. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Nghi Vo: Stories About Stories". Locus. May 17, 2021. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
- ^ "@NghVoWrites". Twitter. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
Cis, queer, she/her.
- ^ "2021 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. December 1, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
- ^ Mike Glyer (December 18, 2021). "2021 Hugo Awards". File 770. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ^ "IAFA Crawford Award Winners". Retrieved September 2, 2021.
- ^ a b "Award-Winning Author Nghi Vo Returns to Ahn: Announcing Three New Singing Hills Novellas". Tor.com. May 10, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
- ^ "The Singing Hills Cycle". MacMillan. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
- ^ Noah Fram (May 30, 2021). "Nghi Vo gets the green light". BookPage (Interview). Retrieved December 23, 2021.
- ^ "Bibliography". Nghi Vo. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
- ^ "A Monster, A Miracle, A Star: Revealing Nghi Vo's Siren Queen". Tor.com. September 1, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.