# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/celeste-ng
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:04:23.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/celeste-ng"
name: "Celeste Ng"
slug: "celeste-ng"
description: "Celeste Ng is an American writer and novelist. Her short stories have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ng's first novel, Everything I Never Told You, released in 2014, won the Amazon Book of the Year award as well as praise from critics. Ng's short story \"Girls at Play\" won a Pushcart Prize in 2012 and a 2015 Alex Award. Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was published in 2017. The TV miniseries based on the book premiered in 2020. Ng received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. Her most recent novel, Our Missing Hearts, was released in 2022."
tagline: "American novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Celeste_Ng_at_2018_National_Book_Festival_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1980-07-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "pronounced_ing"
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    url:       "https://www.celesteng.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump