Nikky Lee

Nikky Lee is an award-winning author who grew up as a barefoot 90s kid in Perth, Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She now lives in Aotearoa New Zealand with a husband, a dog and a couch potato cat. In her free time, she writes speculative fiction, often burning the candle at both ends to explore fantastic worlds, mine asteroids and meet wizards. She's had over two dozen stories published in magazines, anthologies and on the radio.

Her short fiction has been shortlisted six times in the Aurealis Awards with her novelette Dingo & Sister winning the Best Young Adult Short Story and the Best Fantasy Novella categories in 2020. In 2021, she received a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. Her debut novel The Rarkyn's Familiar won the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel, three Indie Ink Awards, and was a finalist in the Aurealis Awards, Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Awards, and the Indies Today Awards.

Birthday: August 8

Website: http://www.nikkythewriter.com

Location: New Zealand

A Few of Your Favourite Books: Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb, Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Murderbot by Martha Wells, Legend by David Gemmell, Millennium’s Rule Series by Trudi Canavan.

Your Writing Status: Traditionally published

Social Links: Facebook: Nikky Lee - writer
Instagram & Threads: @NikkyMLee Login • Instagram
Bluesky: Nikky Lee - Author (@nikkylee.bsky.social)

Bibliography: AWARDS & COMPETITIONS

Once We Flew, Caelestis Books
- 2023 Aurealis Award Winner (Best Science Fiction Novella)
- 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist (Best Novella)

'What Bones These Tides Bring', Remains To Be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, Clan Destine Press
- 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Award Winner (Best Short Story)
- 2023 Aurealis Award Finalist (Best Fantasy Short Story)
- 2023 Australasian Shadow Award Finalist (Short Fiction)

The Rarkyn's Familiar (The Rarkyn Trilogy #1), Parliament House Press
- Winner of the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel
- 2022 Forward INDIES Book of the Year Bronze Winner (Young Adult Fiction)
- 3x 2022 Indie Ink Award Winner (Prettiest Prose, Best Friendship, Side Character MVP
- Finalist in the 2022 Aurealis Awards for Best Young Adult Novel
- Finalist in the 2022 Indies Today Awards
- 3x 2022 Indie Ink Award Finalist (Best Debut, Best Morally Grey Character, Writing the Future We Need: Mental Health Representation).

2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist for Best New Talent

2021 Ditmar Award Winner for Best New Talent

'Dingo & Sister', Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #78, 2020
- Winner of the 2020 Aurealis Awards for Best Young Adult Short Story.
- Winner of the 2020 Aurealis Awards Best Fantasy Novella.
- Finalist in the 2020 Aurealis Awards for Best Science Fiction Novella.
- Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest, Q3, 2019.

'Ram’s Revenge', Aries, Deadset Press, 2020
- Finalist in the 2020 Aurealis Awards for Best Young Adult Short Story.

'The Dead May Dance', Midnight Echo 15, Australasian Horror Writers Association, 2020
- Finalist in the 2020 Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy Short Story.

'Karkinos', Cancer, Deadset Press, 2020
-Finalist in the 2020 Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy Novella.

'Firstborn', Litopia Pop-Up Submissions, 15 May 2020
- Pop-Up Submissions Winner

'NAFF', Australian Writers' Centre, January 2019
- Shortlisted in the Furious Fiction Competition.

'Soup', Australian Writers' Centre, November 2018
- Shortlisted in the Furious Fiction Competition.

'Kill your adverbs', The Writers College NZ, October, 2018
- Winner of My Writing Journey Competition.

For an up to date list of publications visit: Awards & Publications | Nikky Lee – Writer

WIPs: The Rarkyn Trilogy, A Night So Dark And Full Of Stars (short story collection)

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writer /ˈrʌɪtə/ : a peculiar organism capable of transforming caffeine into words.
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