Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng
Ng in 2018
Born (1980-07-30) July 30, 1980
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, writer
Alma materHarvard University
University of Michigan
GenreFiction
Website
www.celesteng.com
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWǔ Qǐshī
Yue: Cantonese
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Celeste Ng (/səˈlɛst ˈɪŋ/ sə-LEST ING; Chinese: 伍绮诗) (born July 30, 1980) is an American writer and novelist. She has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ng's first novel, Everything I Never Told You, released on June 26, 2014, won the Amazon Book of the Year award as well as praise from critics. Ng's short story Girls at Play won a Pushcart Prize in 2012, and was a 2015 recipient of an Alex Award. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was published in 2017. The TV-miniseries based on the book premiered in 2020. Ng received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. Her most recent novel, Our Missing Hearts, was released on October 4, 2022.