She has since written Notes from the Telegraph Club, a series of blogposts about her research for the novel, and described that she chose to use Chinese characters with footnote translations for when the characters are speaking Chinese to each other, partly because the romanization of Chinese was not yet standardized in the 1950s and "Romanized Chinese of the 1950s was for the benefit of non-Chinese Westerners, mostly white people" and partly to make clear the sense of insider versus outsider culture. In 2021, Lo released the book Last Night at the Telegraph Club, following a teenaged American-born Chinese woman coming to terms with her homosexuality during the McCarthy Red Scare in 1950s San Francisco, adapted from a short story she wrote for the 2018 anthology All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Throughout The Ages. Ī stand-alone thriller novel, A Line in the Dark, was published in 2017 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Vulture, and Chicago Public Library. A sequel to Adaptation, titled Inheritance, was published in 2013. The X-Files was also the subject of Lo's graduate research at Stanford. Reviewers at Kirkus Reviews and elsewhere have compared it favorably to the television program The X-Files. Her third book, Adaptation, was published in 2012. It is set in the same fantasy world as Ash, which mixes East Asian and European influences it too was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award finalist and for the 2012 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel, as well as being judged a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Her second book, Huntress, was published by Little, Brown in 2011. Morris Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Fantasy and Science Fiction, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. Her first novel, Ash, was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 2009. Lo began writing for the culture blog AfterEllen in 2003, and at one point served as the managing editor. She resides in Massachusetts with her wife, Amy Lovell.
Malinda Lo was made a member of the faculty of the Lambda Literary Foundation's 2013 Writer Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, along with Samuel R. She enrolled at Stanford with the intention of obtaining a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology, but left with a second master's degree. She graduated from Wellesley College and earned a master's degree in Regional Studies from Harvard. Lo was born in China and moved to the United States at the age of three. She also does research on diversity in young adult literature and publishing.
Malinda Lo is an American writer of young adult novels including Ash, Huntress, Adaptation, Inheritance, A Line in the Dark, and Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
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