found: The empress of salt and fortune, 2020:title page (Nghi Vo) about the author (Nghi Vo lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange horizons, Uncanny magazine, Podcastle, and Lightspeed, and her short story "Neither witch nor fairy" made the 2014 Tiptree Award Honor List.)
found: Nghi Vo personal website, via WWW, 02 June 2020(Nghi Vo a fantasy, science fiction and horror writer. The stand-alone sequel to Empress of salt and fortune, When the tiger came down the mountain, is coming out December 8, 2020.)
found: familysearch, via WWW, 02 June 2020(Nghi Vo lives in Holland, Michigan)
found: Tor publishing website, via WWW, 02 June 2020(Nghi Vo was born in central Illinois. She lives on the shores of Lake Michigan)