Malinda Lo is the critically acclaimed author of several young adult novels, including most recently A Line in the Dark, which was a Kirkus Best YA Book of 2017 and Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, which was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and was a Kirkus Best Book for Children and Teens.

Malinda's nonfiction has been published by the New York Times Book Review, the Huffington Post, the Horn Book, and the anthologies Here We Are, How I Resist, and Scratch.

She lives in Massachusetts with her wife.