About

Nino Cipri is a trans and queer writer, editor, and educator. They have been nominated for the Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Lambda, Nebula, and Hugo Awards, and won a BSFA award. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and audio documentaries; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer.

One time, an angry person on the internet called Nino a verbal terrorist, which was pretty funny.

Nino’s 2019 story collection Homesick won the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize and was chosen as one of the top ten books on the ALA’s Over the Rainbow Reading List. Their novella Finna — about queer heartbreak, working retail, and wormholes — was published by Tor.com in 2020, and its sequel Defekt was released in April 2021. Nino’s YA horror debut, Dead Girls Don’t Dream, was published by in 2024. Their second YA horror novel, Every Room a Hunger, about a haunted facility for troubled teens, will be published in 2027. They also write zines and a sporadic newsletter They are represented by DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Agency.

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Want to know more? Here are my fiction and nonfiction bibliographies, and hiring info for teaching and editing work. If you like what I do, please consider supporting me via Patreon or Ko-fi.