Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo is an American author of short stories, novellas, and novels. 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. 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. 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. Since the deal, Into the Riverlands has also been published and Mammoths at the Gates will be released in 2023. The novellas can be read in any order. Her debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful, was published in 2021. The novel is a queer fantasy adaptation of The Great Gatsby which reimagines the character of Jordan Baker as the adopted Vietnamese daughter of a wealthy, white American couple. Vo's second novel, Siren Queen, an urban fantasy set in pre-Code Hollywood, was released in May 2022. Bibliography

Novellas
 The Empress of Salt and Fortune (2020)
 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020)
 Into the Riverlands (2022)
 Mammoths at the Gates (2023)

Novels 
 The Chosen and the Beautiful (2021)
 Siren Queen (2022)

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1981 births
Living people
21st-century American women writers
American fantasy writers
21st-century American short story writers
American women short story writers
Writers from Peoria, Illinois
Hugo Award-winning writers
Queer women
American LGBT novelists
LGBT people from Illinois
Queer writers
21st-century American LGBT people
Women science fiction and fantasy writers