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Nino Cipri
@ninocipri.bsky.social
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Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
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What’s the best and worst dish to bring to the potluck?
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Ok last LAST call for this month's zines, if you order one from me today you'll also get this little guy I threw together last night ko-fi.com/ninocipri/shop
Nino holds a small one-page zine titled "My Grand Unifying Worldbuilding Theory"
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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everyone look at my cute cute wife holding a cupcake on our anniversary @hernibsen.bsky.social
My wife, Nibs, is a wildly cute desi woman wearing a floral patterned dress, green scarf, and denim jacket. She holds a tiny cupcake in her hand while smiling at the camera. She’s got a dimple. Her cheeks are so pinchable that aunties in restaurants can barely restrain themselves from pinching them. Her smile is fond and she’s looking at me!!! Can you fuckin believe it? I’m so sorry to be using this accessibility feature this way, but I can’t just describe my wife and not get carried away. She really is that cute and I’m so lucky.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I finally got around to putting the zines I made with Back to Print up on ko-fi. Bad Dad Redemption is all about unredeemable dads, while What Stares Back is a strange little story about an even stranger movie. ko-fi.com/ninocipri/shop
Two brightly colored zines on a wooden floor, both by Nino Cipri.
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Happy paperback day to Dead Girls Don’t Dream! Now with a bonus playlist in the back, which are all songs I both listened to incessantly while writing this, and songs that are thematically or vibe-ally resonant. Available wherever books are sold, and signed copies thru @astoriabookshop.bsky.social
Nino holds a copy of their YA Horror book “Dead Girls Don’t Dream” up in a patio Nino holding open their book to a page titled “Playlist” that includes a list of songs. 1. Meet Me in the Woods, Lord Huron 2. Crucible by Sleigh Bells 3. Bound by Zola Jesus 4. Lost Maps by Marnie 5. Shadows of My Name by Emma Ruth Rundle 6. Mother by Lissie 7. The Passenger by Hunter As a Horse 8. Jennifer’s Body by Hole 9. Dismantle Me by The Distillers 10. Mountains Crave by Anna von Hausswolff 11. Crossroads by Tracy Chapman 12. Third Eye by Florence & the Machine 13. Between the Breaths by Mitski and Xia Xiu 14. Heart of My Own by Basia Bulut 15. Dreadful Wind and Rain by Jerry Garcia 16. Day Is Coming by Katie Kim 17. Baptism By Fire by Sleigh Bells 18. “Whole” by Sunny War
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I didn‘t forget, I just have a lot on my mind!
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The Lizard Wizard casts conjure free books
A person in teal robes, a bearded dinosaur mask, and a pointed black hat stands next to a white cart full of books in front of a bookstore.
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Just in time to get into the Halloween spirit, I’m teaching a horror writing class with Queens Collaboratory. If you’re in NYC and want to dip your toes into writing horror, this the place to do it. Tickets are $20-$25, and spots are pretty limited. luma.com/9pzyg2tm
Red hands with sharp black nails reach across a dark, smoky background. Text: Horror writing for beginners. October 19, 2-4. LED by Astoria-based author Nino Cipri.
September 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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This tank top I bought on clearance for $5 has lasted longer than the Confederacy
Nino shrugs while wearing a threadbare black tank top that has the words “mug life” printed on it
September 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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You can get an autographed/personalized copy of my first novel DEAD GIRLS DON’T DREAM by supporting @3lobedmag.com’s Kickstarter, among a bunch of other incredible titles
Black text on a white background. Autographed Books $60 Select one autographed book from the list (first come, first served, by backer number)… Hardback unless otherwise indicated. What Kind of Mother by Clay Chapman McCleod Red Skies in the Morning by Nadia Bulkin (tpb) Dead Girls Don’t Dream by Nino Cipri Constellations of Ruin by Andrew S. Fuller (tpb) Haunted Ecologies by Corey Farrenkopf (tpb) A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan (tpb) We Are Always Tender with Our Dead by Eric LaRocca Countess by Suzan Palumbo All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt Backers 4 Ships to
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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And as always, signed copies of DDDG and all my other books are available at AstoriaBookshop.com.
A pink and purple jellyfish with narrow eyes on a bright green background. There's a badly drawn speech bubble with covers of all four of Nino Cipri's books: Dead Girls Don't Dream, Finna, Defekt, and Homesick. Text says: they would also like to remind you that you can get signed copies of all of nino's books at AstoriaBookshop.com. You can ask nino to draw bugs or whatever if you want.
September 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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the jellyfish is back with important news: the tpb of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM is coming out in november, and b&n is having their preorder sale for members!
a pink and purple jellyfish with narrow eyes on a bright green background. Text says: the disinterested jellyfish is back to tell you to preorder the tpb of Dead Girls Don't Dream. Barnes and Noble is running its preorder sale. Members get 25% off 9/3 to 9/5. Graphic design is not my passion.
September 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I have been Trapped
Nino. A white queer person with glasses and a mustache, snuggles a gray cat that’s lying over their arm.
August 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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maybe the edible just hit but give me one of those 64 packs of crayons and this lineart and i would be chill for like two hours
The cover of automatic noodles by Annalee Newitz, which depicts a robotic hand with chopsticks holding some noodles above a bowl, along with some smaller robots amid a San Francisco landscape
August 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Also shoutout to this dog, who snored through the only one of my panels I managed to make it to. (Photo with permission from the owner, who was also very nice!)
A king cavalier spaniel in a carrier, looking hopefully up at a treat that his owner is holding off camera. He’s wearing a large name tag that says TOBY.
August 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I’m signing books with Nook And Cranny Books at table 307 if you’re at #WorldCon!
A selfie of Nino, a white masc person, in front of display of their books. Text says: signing books with @nookandcrannyseattle if you’re at WorldCon!
August 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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i hear we're making cute graphics for our WorldCon schedules?
An illustration of a pink and purple jellyfish on a teal background. The text says: this disinterested jellyfish is here to tell you nino’s schedule for Worldcon. i found it for free on canva. Friday, 8/15 table talk @ noon Book Bans & Queer Erasure @ 6pm The Importance of Queer Horror @ 7:30 Saturday, 8/16 Where Are Your Parents? @ 10:30am Autographs! @ 4:30pm Reading @ 6:00pm please clap
August 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Remembering last summer when I gave a talk to teen writers about YA horror and agency, and made this extremely depressing list. This is not the result of “some people are shitty parents”
Black text on a white background that says: How much agency are youth allowed in America? Progressively less and less! ● Political disenfranchisement ● Physical policing ● Denied freedom of movements and peaceful gatherings ● Censored speech in student media ● Institutionalization ● Can be denied education ● Can be denied access to resources ● Infantilized through moral panics ● “Parental rights” movement ● Inheriting all the consequences of previous generations’ bad choices
August 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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It never fails: someone will post something with a headline like this, about the deep structural problems that infringe on kids’ lives and freedoms, and someone will inevitably say “some people just shouldn’t have kids!”

My sibling in Christ, that is 1) not the issue and 2) eugenics?
A screencap of an article titled “The American Child Death Toll Is Horrifying” by Courtney Rawlings.
August 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Any excuse to post this goofy creature
A gray cat is sprawled belly up on a bed. He’s got a little white patch on his belly. A nearby woman pets him.
June 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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So many tasks are clawing for my attention, yet here I am
Nino, a white queer masc person, sits on a red couch with a gray cat on their lap
April 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Whut
A black and white cartoon of a man reading a letter, then holding it much closer to his face and squinting at it
April 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Feeling like this might be a new author photo
Nino, a white queer person with dark hair, glasses, and a mustache, has unbuttoned their striped buttondown shirt to reveal a pink tanktop beneath that says GAY.
April 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Bringing this one back for TDOV
March 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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YES THIS
Black text on a white background. “ I’m not suggesting we shrink from the fight we’re facing, or that we should duck back into the shadows that Republicans are trying to banish us to, but I am questioning whether outright visibility is what the community needs in 2025. I’d rather see us gather for a collective action day where we support trans youth or do mutual aid for homeless trans people, or help fundraise for those fleeing hostile red states.”
March 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM