Celeste Ng (Chinese Name: 伍綺詩) 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: A Novel, was released on June 26, 2014 and has won many awards such as Amazon Book of the year as wells as praise from critics. Ng's short story Girls at Play won a Pushcart Prize in 2012. Celeste Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Celeste Ng's parents moved from Hong Kong, China in the late 60's. Her father, who passed away in 2004, was a physicist at NASA in the John H Glenn Research Center (formally known as the NASA Lewis Research Center). Celeste’s mother was a chemist who taught at Cleveland State University. When Ng was ten she moved from Pittsburgh to Shaker Heights, Ohio with her parents and sister (who is now an engineer). She attended the schools in the Shaker Heights City School District, from Woodbury elementary all the way up to Shaker Heights High Sc...