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Nghi Vo
@nghivo.bsky.social
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Spec fic writer. It probably didn't happen, but it should have, could have or might have. Represented by Fox Literary. Cis, queer, she/her.
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Happy #InternationalTranslationDay!

Keep AI out of translation!
White text on a red field. Text reads: Translators are NOT traitors, with letters in bolder white offering the message "Translators NOT AI."
September 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Look what I was given on tour!

They're the most adorable stickers of Cleric Chih and Jordan Baker, made by the phenomenally talented @fourthleafluckart.bsky.social, and I love them so very much!
Two stickers on a wood background. Left: Cleric Chih of the Singing Hills novellas, a cleric in blue robes carrying a notebook and writing implement with their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant in their head. Right: Magical Vietnamese-American Jordan Baker of The Chosen and the Beautiful, a flapper in a pink dress with a drink in one hand performing paper magic with the other.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Still so many FREE BOOKS!

Seriously, come take them. I do not want to haul them back tomorrow.
Long row of books in tubs on tables Long row of books in tubs on tables with three volunteers getting everything organized
June 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Set up at Pridefest MKE!!! Come say hello, get a book signed, and grab some FREE BOOKS from the MKE LGBT Center!

Thank you to everyone who came by yesterday, it was so good to see people!
Stack of books by Nghi Vo next to a sign reading "signed books suggested donation $15"
June 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Here's my books on display and here's me, cleaner and more cheerful than i will be all weekend!
A table draped with a rainbow flag, featuring various works by Nghi Vo Nghi Vo, head and shoulders, fat Seasian woman, smiling.
June 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Here's some of the 80 plus boxes we brought, with bonus Katie, librarian and general dynamo!
Long row of tables with books in top, tended by a white woman.
June 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Check out this bit from the San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series, as related by Jeannee Parker Martin, who served as director of the AIDS Home Care and Hospice Program
TEXT ONLY: The key element to that program, and the key element, I think, to why the San Francisco model works is because of the attendant care program that we established at VNH [Visiting Nurses and Hospice] that started in 1984 to complement the hospice services. Without that attendant care program, without the support that we provided to patients at home, patients would never have left the hospital. Nobody else was serving these patients at home. They were staying in the hospital for for weeks and weeks. It was common then. And when this program started, we started shifting people out of the hospital and working with them at home, allowing them to remain at home. We administered medications or helped them understand the medications, helped them with transportation to and from doctors' appointments, et cetera. So it was really a very important program. The key element of that program was the attendant care program, because patients had lovers; they had family members; they had all kinds of people who were working during the day who weren't available to stay with them, and the patients were frail; they were often demented, and needed somebody with them.
May 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Okay, I have been told that you don't get to hint at a spite art bequest and not follow up on it.

Badger and Cooke had some feelings about who got their art collection, as reported here in the U.S.1.
Yellowed newspaper clipping, which reads as follows: As for the estate, St. John says that for some reason Cooke and Badger were angry with the local Santa Barbara art community. They did not want to give their art works to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Most of their money went to Visiting Nurse Associations in various cities where they were not personally known, for instance, Bangor, Maine. "The people there asked, 'Why us?' It seems as if they made their selections by the size of the community," says St. John.
May 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Have Badger's senior yearbook entry and a snippet from an article about the graveyard where he and Cooke are buried.
Yellowed yearbook entry, photo of a smiling white man to the left, text on the right. Whitin Badger (Whitin) "He moves with feminine ease and grace." Art Club 3, 4; Treasurer 3; Dramatic Society 3; Writing Group 4; Glee club 3, 4; Nautical Knot 3 Noted as an artist. Future-- Art Schoo." Yellowed newspaper clipping: "Cooke also had a program interviewing Asian leaders and wrote an autobiography, "Just Passing Through." Apparently he and Badger settled in California when they retired. "Whitin Badger was an artist and a poet. Everyone referred to them as brothers," says St. John. Cooke seemed to have no family. "He adapted Whitin Badger's family. They kept to themselves."
May 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Hey, who wants something nice?

So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:
A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"
May 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Are you gonna be at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend?

Come join me, Jedediah Berry, Cary Groner, and Stacy Nathanial Jackson on Saturday, 4/26, at 12:30PM for our panel, Stranger, Freer, More Beguiling: The Artful Side of Fantasy and Sci-Fi!

We'll be at the Ray Stark Family Theatre!
Blue banner with falling colored sheets of paper, one reading 30 YEARS. Text: Find Me At Los Angels Times Festival of Books April 26-27 | University of Southern California Many stories. One weekend latimes.com/fob
April 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Here's me again, realizing that sleep is a myth and time is an illusion!
Under an ABC 7 Chicago marquee, author Nghi Vo sits between a male news presenter and the president of the American Writers Museum, Carey Cranston.
April 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Look what I found today, it's @tkingfisher.com 's Nettle and Bone in braille!
Three thick upright volumes bound in dark cloth, labeled with call number, volume number, the letter F, the name Kingfisher, and the title "Nettle and Bone."
April 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I dunno how many legs a writing desk needs, but I'm gonna say it's at least one more than my current desk has.
A hand pulling away a table leg to show where it has become detached from the tabletop due to a snapped screw.
January 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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That where you need to be today, kitty?
A domestic long-haired gray cat presses insistently up to a bare leg, paw draped over a to-do list
September 20, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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If you see this, post a monster!
A small green eraser in the shape of a stubby dragonish monster grimaces from the clip of a green fountain pen.
September 17, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Signed copies at The Writer's Block in Las Vegas!!
A hardback book, The Brides of High Hill, opened to the title page and signed by the author, Nghi Vo.
September 13, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Don't Sleep with the Dead cover reveal day!

In this novella follow-up to The Chosen and the Beautiful, we follow Nick Carraway through a darkly magical and devil-infested NYC in the first years of WW2.

Cover art by Marisa Aragón Ware
Cover design by @cfoltzer.bsky.social
Book cover of Nghi Vo's novella Don't Sleep with the Dead, featuring a paper sculpture heart on a field of black, a city in white silhouette across the bottom, text in gold tone.
August 29, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Ripley, what sorrows have you known?
A lanky gray domestic long-hair cat stretches out full length in beige carpet, a sadly contemplative look on his small face.
August 28, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Look, my face has had way, way worse things* shoved in it, you are a delight!

*Sea pineapple. Though I would try it again to see if I just got a bad one. The ammonia squirt in my mouth was pretty rough.
Illustrated two buttons meme. Two buttons, one marked "Be a dignified publishing professional," the other marked "Fangirl all over Christina Orlando." In the second panel, a white man in a red and white superhero outfit wipes his sweating brow.
August 13, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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I just want what she has. (Noodles).
Cologne from the anime Ranma 1/2, a tiny little old woman in a sleeveless shirt and apron, carrying two bowls of noodles.
August 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Anyway, this is Ripley, who does not look anything like a hoodie.
A long-furred gray cat, sitting on the ground, looking over his shoulder with big, concerned eyes.
June 8, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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A fortune? A fate? A notecard with a bit of nonsense on it from a writer who can't sleep?

Whatever it is, come grab one from me at my meet and greet this weekend at the Nebulas, Saturday, 2:30pm to 3:00pm at Table E!
24 light blue notecards, face down, each stamped with an ink bottle.
June 6, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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This one, taken from a Godey's 1860s pattern, is shaped like a leaf, beaded and comes with a handy ring for hanging it up.
Fountain pen wiper: Several pieces of fabric cut into the shape of a leaf and sandwiched between beaded covers. The pen wiper is hung from what looks like a beaded ring.
June 2, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Does your fountain pen need to be cleaned using the skirts of a rather irritated doll? Here's another one, circa 1930. The skirts are, I think, conical pinked pockets. There's a version of these using Frozen Charlotte dolls for the upper body, which really is a hell of a thing.
Fountain pen wiper. The handle is the upper body of a white skinned, black haired, rather irritated-looking ceramic doll. The red and black decorated skirts are formed from conical pockets of pinked wool.
June 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM