Malinda Lo

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Malinda Lo
Young adult, fantasy, science fiction
SpouseAmy Lovell
RelativesRuth Earnshaw Lo (grandmother)
Website
www.malindalo.com

Malinda Lo is an American writer of

young adult novels including Ash, Huntress, Adaptation, Inheritance, A Line in the Dark, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club
. She also does research on diversity in young adult literature and publishing.

Personal life

Lo was born in China and moved to the United States at the age of three. She graduated from

Stanford with the intention of obtaining a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology, but left with a second master's degree.[1]

Malinda Lo was made a member of the faculty of the Lambda Literary Foundation's 2013 Writer Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, along with Samuel R. Delany, Sarah Schulman and David Groff.[2]

She resides in Massachusetts with her wife, Amy Lovell.[3][4][5]

Writing career

Lo began writing for the culture blog AfterEllen in 2003, and at one point served as the managing editor.[6][7]

She was also a contributing writer for Curve magazine from 2005 to 2007, acting as associate editor for a majority of her tenure.[8]

Her first novel,

Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association.[2] Her third book, Adaptation, was published in 2012. Reviewers at Kirkus Reviews and elsewhere have compared it favorably to the television program The X-Files.[12] The X-Files was also the subject of Lo's graduate research at Stanford.[1] A sequel to Adaptation, titled Inheritance, was published in 2013.[13]

A stand-alone thriller novel, A Line in the Dark, was published in 2017 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Vulture, and Chicago Public Library.[14]

In 2021, Lo released the book

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults nomination.[18] In November 2021 her YA Novel, Last Night at the Telegraph Club was awarded the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.[19]

Lo followed up Last Night at the Telegraph Club with a standalone companion novel called A Scatter of Light, which was published on October 4, 2022.[20] A coming-of-age story, it is set in 2013, during the time same-sex marriage is legalized in California, a topic which is used to connect the two novels.[21]

Research on diversity

In 2011, Malinda Lo co-founded Diversity in YA, a website and book tour to promote and celebrate diverse representations in young adult literature, with fellow young adult author

New York Times bestselling young adult novels. Her 2013 analysis showed that 15 percent of New York Times bestselling young adult novels featured main characters of color, 12 percent featured LGBT main characters, and three percent had main characters with disabilities.[23]

Selected works

Stand-alone novels

Series

Ash and Huntress universe

  • Ash (2009)
  • Huntress (2011)
  • The Fox (2011), short story set after Huntress, published in Subterranean Magazine, summer 2011 (Subterranean Press # 19)

Ash is also found in Love Bites 2: Arizona / Ash / Blood Ties / The Secret Circle: The Initiation and the Captive (2010)

Adaptation series

  • Adaptation (2012)
  • Inheritance (2013)
  • Natural Selection (2013) Short story, online

Riverside series

  • Malinda Lo contributed to
    Serial Box in 2015–2016.[25]

Stand-alone short stories

Nonfiction

  • A letter to her sixteen-year-old self, in The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (2012), edited by Sarah Moon and James License
  • "Forever Feminist," essay in the anthology Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World (2017), edited by Kelly Jensen[32][33]

Articles and interviews

References

  1. ^ a b Lo, Malinda, Bio, archived from the original on 2017-09-17, retrieved 2013-03-25
  2. ^ a b c "2013 Writers Retreat Faculty". Lambda Literary Foundation. 2013-03-13. Archived from the original on 2013-03-29. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  3. ^ Noble, Barnes &. "Last Night at the Telegraph Club|Hardcover". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  4. ^ Springen, Karen (21 Dec 2009). "Fall 2009 Flying Starts: Malinda Lo". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  5. ISBN 9780525555254
    .
  6. ^ a b c "Malinda Lo". AfterEllen. Archived from the original on 2020-04-22. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  7. ^ "Interview with Malinda Lo". AfterEllen. 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  8. ^ "Nonfiction". Malinda Lo. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  9. ISBN 9780316071338
    .
  10. ISBN 9780316175203
    .
  11. ^ Mandelo, Lee (2011-04-05). "Queering SFF: A Review—Huntress by Malinda Lo". Tor.com.
  12. ^ Adaptation by Malinda Lo. 2012-07-22. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  13. ^ "Malinda Lo Unveils the Cover and Title for the Adaptation Sequel". Children's Book Council. 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  14. ^ a b "A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  15. ^ a b c Leary, Alaina (2021-01-19). "Q&A with Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club". We Need Diverse Books. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  16. ^ "Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo". Kirkus Reviews. 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  17. ^ Zou, Joanne (2021-03-02). "Review: musings on lesbianism & Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo". Farrago. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  18. ^ Waters, Courtney (2021-05-24). "Best Fiction for Young Adults (#BFYA2022) Featured Review of Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo". American Library Association. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  19. ^ "Malinda Lo". National Book Foundation. October 4, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  20. ^ Price, Tirzah (October 6, 2022). "October 2022 YA Releases for Your TBR". Book Riot. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
  21. ^ "A Scatter of Light". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
  22. ^ Welcome to Diversity in YA Fiction!
  23. ^ "Diversity in 2013 New York Times Young Adult Bestsellers." Diversity in YA. April 21, 2014. Diversity in YA
  24. ^ "Rights Report: Week of May 22, 2017". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  25. ^ "Tremontaine". www.serialbox.com. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  26. ^ "The CureMalinda Lo". Interfictions Online. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  27. ^ "All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages". www.harlequin.com. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  28. ^ "Underlined". Underlined. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  29. ^ "We Could Be Heroes". Autostraddle. 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  30. ^ "FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology". FORESHADOW. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  31. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  32. ^ "Book Review: 'Here We Are' an uplifting anthology". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  33. ^ "Here We Are". Workman Publishing. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  34. ^ "Notes & Queeries: The Allure of the Lesbian Vampire". AfterEllen. 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2019-10-16.

External links

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