Nikki Stinson is a cross-genre American author and artist whose stories center on her Filipino and Irish heritage. When not creating, she works as an adjunct professor of English. Nikki studied African American History and other ethnic groups in the U.S. at San Bernardino Valley College, earned her Bachelor's degree in English from California Baptist University, studied Holocaust and Genocide at Stockton University, and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Drexel University.

           Her debut novel, Daughters of Mindanao, won the 2025 Drexel Book Award and will be published with Running Wild Press in 2028. Her short stories with DILIM Press are "Life Among Manananggals," which appears in the Galleon Dreaming Anthology (October 2026), and "The Theory of Complete," featured in the FiliFutures Journal, which will be published in June 2027. Nikki has also been published by On The Run, The Dazed Starling, and The Write Launch, with more publications forthcoming. Originally from Riverside, California, she lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and three children. Subscribe for news on upcoming publications, including her historical horror novella, Onryō of Manila, and her dystopian cli-fi novel, Your Own Corner of the World.