About Nikki Auberkett

Award-winning author Nikki Auberkett weaves real-world discoveries and intercultural theories from her studies as a cultural anthropologist into her fictional works. Her debut novel, Prax, was a finalist in the 2022 Page Turner Book Awards and long-listed in the 2023 Page Turner Book Awards. Ithandryll was long-listed in the 2023 Page Turner Book Awards, received an Honorable Mention in the 2023 Readers' Favorite Book Awards, a 5-Star Review from Readers' Favorite, and a 5-Star Review from Midwest Book Review. Nikki is also a graduate of the Institute for Children's Literature (back when "remote learning" was a typewriter and snail mail!), was a guest copy editor for The Irish Journal of Anthropology, and has developmentally edited several fiction novels that went on to become award-winners and bestsellers in independent publishing. After living in downtown Chicago before, during, and after the pandemic, she entered her "Stars Hollow Phase" and relocated to a small village cluster in Iowa known as The Amana Colonies—where she opened a small indie bookstore to help support other indie authors. On any given day, Nikki can be found sipping handcrafted coffee, making book paper crafts, harvesting in her huge food garden, faceplanting on her laptop keyboard, and/or whispering to the kobolds who live in her home.Read their story