Nikki Stinson is an 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, 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 story, "Life Among Manananggals," appears in the Galleon Dreaming Anthology by DILIM Press, which is available now. Nikki has also been published by On The Run, The Dazed Starling, The Write Launch, and more. She is originally from Riverside, California, and lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and three children.