Celeste Ng is born in July 30, 1980 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. and she is an American writer and novelist. She has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ng's first novel, Everything I Never Told You, released on June 26, 2014 won the Amazon Book of the Year award. Her parents moved from Hong Kong in the late 1960s. Her father, who died in 2004, was a physicist at NASA in the John H. Glenn Research Center. Her mother was a chemist who taught at Cleveland State University. Celeste Ng taught writing at the University of Michigan and at Grub Street in Boston. Ng also was an editor of blogs at the website Fiction Writers Review for three years. Ng's debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, is a literary thriller that focuses on an American family in 1970s Ohio. While on a book tour for Everything I Never Told You, Ng said her favorite book as a child was Harriet the Spy. As an adult, one of her favorite books is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.