Author guide

Malinda Lo Books in Order

Malinda Lo is a New York Times-bestselling author of seven novels, including A Scatter of Light. Her novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club won the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Michael L. Printz Honor, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her debut novel, Ash, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. Lo's short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Autostraddle, Foreshadow, NPR, The Horn Book, and numerous anthologies. Born in Guangzhou, China, she immigrated to the United States as a child and grew up near Boulder, Colorado. She holds degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard University, and Stanford University, and lives in Massachusetts with her wife and their dog.