
I also spent three years living and working in Japan, during which time I took the chance to travel around Asia. I was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She has had over two dozen novels published. She has won several other awards including the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novella/novelette (twice, in 20). Her books have appeared on the New York Times best-sellers list, the USA Today best-sellers list, and the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list. It went on to be her first book sale as "Desert Warrior", sold to Silhouette Desire in September 2002 (published in 2003).

Then in 2001 her manuscript "Coaxing the Sheik" won the Jane Porter Award for highest-placed Mills and Boon, as well as the Clendon Award's Readers' Choice Award that year.

In 1999, Singh placed third in the Romance Writers of New Zealand's "Clendon Award".

She attended Mount Roskill Grammar School. Of Indian descent, Nalini Singh was born in 1977 in Fiji, and moved to New Zealand as a child.
