Nino Cipri

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Nino Cipri
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Years active2000-present
Notable works Finna
Website
www.ninocipri.com

Nino Cipri is a science fiction writer, editor, and educator. Their works have been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Shirley Jackson Awards.

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Personal life

Cipri identifies as queer and trans/nonbinary. [1] A graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers Workshop, they earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Kansas in 2019. Cipri has previously worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic at Divvy, [2] food columnist for a Chicago culture website, and as a labor organizer. [3] [4] Their partner is writer Nibedita Sen. [4]

Career

Cipri says Kelly Link [1] and Ursula Le Guin are two of their main influences, adding about Le Guin that "I was trying to teach myself how to write short stories, she was literally the first author I turned to." [2] They also cite the importance to their writing of queer authors from the 1990s such as Poppy Z. Brite and comics like Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist. [1]

Their fiction has been published in a number of magazines and publications, including Tordotcom, Fireside Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Daily Science Fiction and other places. Cipri's short story "The Shape of My Name," described as "a heart-rending vision of the struggles of time travelers bound to a single house and family," [5] was a finalist for the 2015 Tiptree/Otherwise Award and was reprinted in the Tachyon Publications anthology The New Voices of Science Fiction, edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman. Their short story "Opals and Clay" was a finalist for the 2016 Tiptree/Otherwise Award.

Their novella Finna was published in 2020 by Tordotcom. It was followed by a sequel, Defekt, in 2021.

Awards and honors

Cipri's first short story collection Homesick won the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize and was a finalist for the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Awards. Their novella Finna is a finalist for the 2021 Nebula Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Novella, Locus Award for Best Novella, and Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. [6]

Year

(Awarded)

NomineeSocietyAwardCategoryResultRef
2016“The Shape of My Name”Panel of Five (5) Judges Otherwise Award Honor List [7]
2017“Opals and Clay”Honor List [7]
2020Homesick World Fantasy Con WFA WFA—Collection Nominated [7]
Readercon panel Shirley Jackson Award SJA—CollectionNominated [7]
2021 Finna World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Awards Hugo—Novella Nominated [7]
SF&F Writers of America Nebula Awards Nebula—Novella Nominated [7]
Locus Magazine members Locus Award Locus—Novella 8th [7]
2022Defekt Philadelphia Science Fiction Society Philip K. Dick Award Finalist [7]
Locus Magazine members Locus Award Locus—Novella 8th [7]

Works

Novellas

Collections

Selected short stories

Year PublishedTitlePrintedReprintedRef
2015"The Shape of My Name" (4 March 2015). VanderMeer, Ann (ed.). "The Shape of My Name". Tor.com (published Mar 4, 2015).The New Voices of Science Fiction (2019)
2016"Opals and Clay" (8 February 2016). "Opals and Clay". PodCastle (published February 8, 2016).
2018"Ad Astra Per Aspera" (Jan 18, 2018). "Ad Astra Per Aspera". Capricious Magazine (9).Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (2019)

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