Nghi Vo

Nghi Vo is the author of the novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and the Beautiful, as well as the acclaimed novellas When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain and The Empress of Salt and Fortune, a Locus and Ignyte Award finalist and the winner of the Crawford Award and the Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.
Books by this author

The Chosen and the Beautiful
An Instant National Bestseller!
An Indie Next Pick!
A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine | USA Today | Buzzfeed | Greatist | BookPage | PopSugar | Bustle | The Nerd Daily | Goodreads | Literary Hub...

The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Winner of the 2020 Crawford Award!
Winner of the 2021 Hugo Award!
A Hugo Award-Winning Series!
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist
A 2021 Ignyte Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Award...

Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora
Clerics and tigers. Nuns and bandits. Archers and hunters. Mages versus Machinists. A recently awoken djinn king and the soldier who must contain him. All these and more can be found in excerpts from five fantasy novellas rooted in Asia and the Asian...

Into the Riverlands
Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues...
"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPR on The Empress of Salt...

Mammoths at the Gates
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series!
"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills...

Siren Queen
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes a dazzling new novel where immortality is just a casting call away
An Indie Next Pick!
A LibraryReads Top Ten Pick!
A Brooklyn Library Prize longlist...

Tor.com Publishing 2020 Debut Sampler
Tor.com Publishing is proud to present a sneak peak of its 2020 debut novel and novella authors.
Nino Cipri's Finna is a fun, queer story about low-wage workers traveling through wormholes to find a...

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
From Locus and Ignyte finalist, Crawford Award winner, and bestselling author Nghi Vo comes the second installment in a Hugo Award-winning series
"A stunning gem of a novella that explores the complexity and layers of...