Nino Cipri | |
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Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Education | Clarion Workshop University of Kansas (MFA) |
Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
Years active | 2000–present |
Notable works | Finna |
Website | |
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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.
Cipri identifies as queer and trans/nonbinary. [1] A graduate of the 2014 Clarion 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]
Cipri says Kelly Link [1] and Ursula K. 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 Tor.com, 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 James Tiptree Jr. 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 Tor.com. It was followed by a sequel, Defekt, in 2021.
Cipri's first short story collection Homesick won the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize[ citation needed ] and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award. Their novella Finna became finalist for the 2021 Nebula Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Novella, and Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novella. [6]
Year | Nominee | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | "The Shape of My Name" | Otherwise Award | — | Honor List | [7] |
2017 | "Opals and Clay" | Honor List | [7] | ||
2020 | Homesick | Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize | — | Won | [ citation needed ] |
Shirley Jackson Award | Collection | Nominated | [7] | ||
WFA | Collection | Shortlisted | [7] | ||
2021 | Finna | Hugo Awards | Novella | Shortlisted | [7] |
Lambda Literary Award | Transgender Fiction | Shortlisted | [7] | ||
Locus Award | Novella | Nominated—8th | [7] | ||
Nebula Awards | Novella | Shortlisted | [7] | ||
2022 | Defekt | Locus Award | Novella | Nominated—8th | [7] |
Philip K. Dick Award | — | Shortlisted | [7] |
Year | Title | Printed | Ref |
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2015 | "The Shape of My Name" | —— (March 4, 2015). "The Shape of My Name". Tor.com . | |
2016 | "Opals and Clay" | —— (February 8, 2016). "Opals and Clay". PodCastle . | |
2018 | "Ad Astra Per Aspera" | —— (Jan 18, 2018). "Ad Astra Per Aspera". Capricious Magazine (9). |
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