Celeste Ng

What I admire most about Celeste Ng is how quietly devastating her work can be. Born in Pittsburgh, Harvard-educated, and a Guggenheim Fellow, she could easily lean on prestige, but instead she writes about the silences inside families with real restraint. Her debut, Everything I Never Told You, mapped Asian American belonging without ever turning preachy, and that emotional precision is rare. I also love that her X handle plays on how her name is pronounced, a small wink that signals she does not take herself too seriously. To me, she is a novelist who endures through honesty rather than spectacle.

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Name (English)

Celeste Ng

Name (Japanese)

セレステ・Ng

Reading

せれすて・Ng

Born

July 30, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

novelist / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Monkey

High school

Shaker Heights High School

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
• 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship

• Official sitehttps://www.celesteng.com
• Xhttps://x.com/pronounced_ing
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste%20Ng
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18763622

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• novelist
• writer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.