She resides in Massachusetts with her wife, Amy Lovell. 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. She enrolled at Stanford with the intention of obtaining a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology, but left with a second master's degree. She graduated from Wellesley College and earned a master's degree in Regional Studies from Harvard.

Lo was born in China and moved to the United States at the age of three. She also does research on diversity in young adult literature and publishing. Ages 15 up.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. Fans of Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy will love this. As with Ash, Lo's characters are emotionally reserved, which makes the unfolding of romance between Kaede and Taisin all the more satisfying. Lo's storytelling and prose are masterful, and her protagonists will fascinate, particularly Taisin and her relationship to death and its accompanying rituals, her visions, and the way she can occupy another's mind. The journey to the city of Taninli, home of the Fairy Queen, is treacherous, and along the way Taisin, Kaede, and their travel companions face many dangers and tests of their abilities, not least of which are Taisin and Kaede's growing feelings for each other. A persistent winter has settled over their kingdom for two years, halting not only trade and harvests but the natural course of life itself, and threatening the survival of Taisin and Kaede's fellow citizens. Two teenage girls Taisin, a sage who has visions, and Kaede, a brave fighter from a powerful family must travel to see the Fairy Queen to try and save their land. The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever.

As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. And the people's survival hangs in the balance. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Nature is out of balance in the human kingdom.

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