Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo is an American author of short stories, novellas, and novels. Biography. Vo was born in Peoria, Illinois, where she lived until attending college at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Vo now lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. She defines her sexuality as queer. Vo’s first published short story was""Gift of Flight" in 2007, after which she published a number of short stories in various media. In 2020 Vo published the novella "The Empress of Salt and Fortune", which won the Hugo Award for Best Novella and the 2021 IAFA Crawford  Award, and was a Locus, and Ignyte Award finalist. It was followed by the sequel "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain". The two novellas together are part of 'The Singing Hills Cycle', with 3 more novellas in the cycle having been acquired for Tor.com by Ruoxi Chen. Her debut novel "The Chosen and the Beautiful", a queer magical retelling of "The Great Gatsby" was published in 2021 and her second novel "Siren Queen", an urban fantasy set in pre-Code Hollywood, is expected in May 2022.