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Maria Dahvana Headley

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Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and editor. Her books include the novels The Mere Wife, Magonia, Aerie, and Queen of Kings, and the memoir The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard, she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman, she is the coeditor of Unnatural Creatures. Her stories have been short-listed for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of Beowulf was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Maria Dahvana Headley Books

Children of Lovecraft book cover

Children of Lovecraft

Ellen Datlow
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition book cover

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition

Charlie Jane Anders
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Beowulf: A New Translation

Maria Dahvana Headley
Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project book cover

Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

Charlie Jane Anders
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The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 104 (January 2019) book cover

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 104 (January 2019)

John Joseph Adams
Lightspeed Magazine, issue 49 (June 2014 - Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue) book cover

Lightspeed Magazine, issue 49 (June 2014 - Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue)

Christie Yant
The Mere Wife book cover

The Mere Wife

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The Dark Issue 29 book cover

The Dark Issue 29

Darcie Little Badger
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Aerie

Maria Dahvana Headley
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 book cover

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015

Nino Cipri
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Some Gods of El Paso

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Magonia

Maria Dahvana Headley
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The Tallest Doll in New York City

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Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 97

Neil Clarke
Queen of Kings book cover

Queen of Kings

Maria Dahvana Headley
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Hotel Angeline

Robert Dugoni
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