Nino Cipri
Nino Cipri is a trans and queer writer, editor, and educator. Their fiction has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Lambda, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer.
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 Publishing in 2020, and its sequel “Defekt” was released in 2021. Nino’s sapphic YA folk horror novel, “Dead Girls Don’t Dream,” was published by Holt Young Readers in 2024. Their next book, “Every Room a Hunger,” will be out in 2027.