Celeste Ng is a Chinese-American author and essayist. She is best known for her novels Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned her MFA from the University of Michigan. Ng's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and other publications. She has won numerous awards, including the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Ng is a passionate advocate for diversity in literature and works to promote the work of underrepresented authors.