Nikki Stinson is an author, English professor, and artist from Riverside, CA, who writes historical women's fiction novels and literary and speculative short stories. Her debut novel, Daughters of Mindanao, is the winner of the 2025 Drexel Book Award and will be published with Running Wild Press in 2027. Nikki has a short story published with the literary journal On The Run, a drawing published with The Dazed Starling, and more novels, short stories, and novellas forthcoming. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and their three children.