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Nino Cipri

(b.1985)

Nino Cipri is a queer and genderqueer writer living in Chicago. Nino is a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers Workshop, which they attended with the help of an Illinois Arts Council Professional Development grant. Their writing has been published in Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Betwixt, Daily Science Fiction, In The Fray, Autostraddle, and Gozamos. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a backstage theater tech. Nino has also worked as a farmhand, bike mechanic, barista, mail clerk, dishwasher, bookseller, and gas station attendant.

Awards: BFA (2022) see all

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy

New and upcoming books

August 2026

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein
(Critical Role)

February 2027

Every Room a Hunger

Series

LitenVerse
1. Finna (2020)
2. Defekt (2021)

Novels

Dead Girls Don't Dream (2024)
Every Room a Hunger (2027)

Collections

Homesick (2019)

Series contributed to

Tor.Com Original
The Shape of My Name (2015)

Critical Role
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein (2026) (with others)

Books containing stories by Nino Cipri

Nebula Awards Showcase 56 (2025)
(Nebula Award Stories, book 56)

Far Out (2021)
Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy
edited by
Paula Guran

The New Voices of Science Fiction (2019)
edited by
Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman

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Awards

2022 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella : Defekt

Award nominations

	2022 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Defekt
	2022 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Defekt
	2021 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Finna
	2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Finna
	2020 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Homesick
	2020 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : Homesick
	2020 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Finna

Nino Cipri recommends

Bruja's Nest (2026)
Brenda Latorre
"blood- and viscera-soaked fever dream of a novel, full of fantasmagoric violence. An ambitious anti-heroine takes her fate into her own hands through a bruja's ritual, with results that will shock even diehard horror fans. Don't miss out on Brenda LaTorre's debut - and maybe don't turn your back on it either."

The Butcher's Daughter (2025)
Corinne Leigh Clark and David Demchuk
"The seedy underbelly of Victorian London comes to life in this deliciously dark novel, with mad scientists, murderous cults, merciless madams, and, of course, meat pies. If Sarah Waters had written penny dreadfuls, it might look something like this, but only David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark could make me hungry while reading about cannibalism."

We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories (2022)
Margaret Killjoy
"I always feel such relief and recognition reading one of Margaret Killjoy's stories. Here there are punks and monsters and orcs and the always-approaching apocalypse, and none of the alienating niceties of middle-class aspirations. She's not writing nice stories about nice people. It's all hope and hunger and dirt under your fingernails instead. Thank f#$%."

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