Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and educator. They are a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers' Workshop, and earned their MFA in fiction from the University of Kansas. 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. They are the author of Homesick, a World Fantasy Award finalist and Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize winner, and the novellas Finna, a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Lambda awards, and Defekt, a British Fantasy Award winner and finalist for the Philip K. Dick and Locus awards. Dead Girls Don't Dream is their young adult debut.
"""Creepy, beautiful, witchy, and queer, Dead Girls Don't Dream was hard to put down. An engrossing and memorable read."" --Erica Waters, author of The River Has Teeth and All That Consumes Us ""Compassionate and unflinching, Dead Girls Don't Dream is one of the loveliest, most devastating things I've read in a long time."" --Sarah Gailey, Hugo Award-winning author of Just Like Home ""An eerie, modern fairy tale that sinks its teeth into readers from the first page. A must read for folklore lovers and those who've wandered off the safe path in the woods."" --Alex Brown, Locus Award finalist, author of Damned If You Do ""Atmospheric and intense and honest, Dead Girls Don't Dream reads like a love song to the power we find within ourselves."" --Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of Squad"