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Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of, most recently, THE MERE WIFE . Upcoming in 2019 is a new translation of BEOWULF, also from FSG. As well, she is the author of the young adult skyship novels MAGONIA and AERIE from HarperCollins, the dark fantasy/alt-history novel QUEEN OF KINGS, the internationally bestselling memoir THE YEAR OF YES, and THE END OF THE SENTENCE, a novella co-written with Kat Howard, from Subterranean. With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-bestselling co-editor of the monster anthology UNNATURAL CREATURES, benefitting 826DC.

Her Nebula,Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy award-nominated short fiction has appeared on Tor.com, and in The Toast, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Subterranean Online, Glitter & Mayhem and Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and The Book of the Dead, Uncanny, Shimmer, and more. It's anthologized in Best American Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as the 2013 and 2014 editions of Rich Horton's The Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, & Paula Guran's 2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, in The Year's Best Weird Volume 1, ed. Laird Barron, and in Wastelands, Vol 2, among others. She's also a playwright and essayist.

She grew up in rural Idaho on a sled-dog ranch, spent part of her 20's as a pirate negotiator and ship marketer in the maritime industry, and now lives in Brooklyn in an apartment shared with a seven-foot-long stuffed crocodile.

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Maria Dahvana Headley

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Books from Maria Dahvana Headley

Magonia

Aerie

A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

The Year of Yes

Queen of Kings

The Best of Subterranean

The New Voices of Fantasy

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices

The End of the Sentence

The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1

Lightspeed Magazine, February 2015

Lightspeed Magazine, November 2013

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition

The Tallest Doll in New York City

Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2020 edition

Uncanny Magazine Issue 14: January/February 2017

Uncanny Magazine Issue 1: November/December 2014

Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends