Nalini Singh (born 1977) is a New Zealand author of Indo-Fijian heritage. She has written many paranormal romance novels.

Early life

Nalini Singh, who is of Indian descent, was born in 1977 in Suva, Fiji. When she was 10 years old, she moved to Auckland, New Zealand. She studied at Mount Roskill Grammar School and later earned a degree in Law and English Literature at the University of Auckland. After graduating with an LLB (combined degree) with honors in 2001, she worked as a law clerk.

Writing

In 1999, Singh placed third in the Romance Writers of New Zealand's Clendon Award competition. In 2001, her book "Coaxing the Sheik" won the Jane Porter Award for the highest-placed Mills and Boon entry, as well as the Clendon Award's Readers' Choice Award. "Coaxing the Sheik" became her first published work, released in 2003 under the title Desert Warrior through the imprint Silhouette Desire.

Her books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, the USA Today bestseller list, and the Publishers Weekly bestseller list.

She won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella/novelette twice, in 2008 and 2009. Her book Alpha Night won the Favourite Paranormal Romance at the 2020 Australian Romance Readers Awards. Her 2021 crime novel, Quiet in Her Bones, was a finalist for Best Crime Novel at the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards.

The Guild Hunter series, which began with Angels' Blood in 2005, will end with Archangel's Eternity, scheduled for publication in May 2026.

Although Singh lives in Auckland, New Zealand, she has been described as "the most famous author that New Zealanders had never heard of."

Other work

Singh worked in Japan for three years as an English teacher and visited other parts of Asia during that time. She has also held jobs as a lawyer, a librarian, a worker in a candy factory, and a temporary employee at a bank, although the order of these jobs is not certain.