Nalini Singh

Nalini Singh (born 1977) is a New Zealand author of Indo-Fijian descent. She has authored numerous paranormal romance novels.

Early life

Of Indian descent, Nalini Singh was born in 1977 in Suva, Fiji, and moved to Auckland, New Zealand when she was 10. She attended Mount Roskill Grammar School, then studied Law and English Literature at the University of Auckland, and worked as a law clerk after graduating LLB (conjoint) with honours in 2001.

Writing

In 1999, Singh placed third in the Romance Writers of New Zealand's Clendon Award competition. In 2001 her manuscript "Coaxing the Sheik" won the Jane Porter Award for highest-placed Mills and Boon, as well as the Clendon Award's Readers' Choice Award. "Coaxing the Sheik" went on to be her first published work, published under the title Desert Warrior through the imprint Silhouette Desire in 2003.

Her books have appeared on the New York Times best-sellers list, the USA Today best-sellers list, and the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list.

She has won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella/novelette (twice, in 2008 and 2009). Alpha Night won the Favourite Paranormal Romance at the 2020 Australian Romance Readers Awards. Her 2021 crime novel, Quiet in Her Bones, was a finalist for the Best Crime Novel at the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards.

The Guild Hunter series, which began with Angels' Blood in 2005, will conclude with Archangel's Eternity, set to be published May 2026.

Despite living in Auckland, New Zealand, Singh has been described as "the most famous author that New Zealanders had never heard of."

Other work

Singh spent three years working in Japan as an English teacher and touring other parts of Asia. At other times she has also worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, and a bank temp, but "not necessarily in that order".