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Maria Dahvana Headley

(b.1977)

Maria Dahvana Headley is an American writer. She graduated from Vallivue High School in Caldwell, Idaho, in 1995, and attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program from 1996-2000. Headley is married to Robert Schenkkan, a playwright and screenwriter.

Awards: WFA (2020) see all

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Paranormal Romance

Series

Magonia
1. Magonia (2015)
2. Aerie (2016)

Novels

   Queen of Kings (2011)
   The Dark Lady (2013)
   The Mere Wife (2018)
   Beowulf: A New Translation (2020)

Collections

The Book of the Dead (2013) (with Jesse Bullington and Paul Cornell)

Novellas and Short Stories

The End of the Sentence (2014) (with Kat Howard)

Series contributed to

Tor.Com Original
   The Tallest Doll in New York City (2014)
   Some Gods of El Paso (2015)
   The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods (2020)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Maria Dahvana Headley

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Three (2022)
(Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, book 3)
edited by
Paula Guran

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume Two (2021)
(Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, book 2)
edited by
Paula Guran

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition (2021)
(Some of the Best from Tor.com)

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Awards

2020 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Read After Burning

Award nominations

	2021 Locus Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods
	2021 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Beowulf: A New Translation
	2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Mere Wife
	2019 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Adriftica
	2019 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Mere Wife
	2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Little Widow
	2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Traditional
	2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream

Maria Dahvana Headley recommends

Fruit of the Dead (2024)
Rachel Lyon
"A brutal, brilliant reimagining of the Persephone/Demeter story, shifted seamlessly into a 21st-century thriller of addiction. My heart was pounding for teenage Cory, coerced into a billionaire's Hades, and for her mother, who dismantles her own compromised life to bring her daughter back from the brink. Fruit of the Dead is a scathing and stunning indictment of patriarchal mythology."

Edith Holler (2023)
Edward Carey
"Edith Holler is that rarest thing, a newly written tale that feels as though it's been discovered behind the stacked stone walls of an abandoned estate. It's eldritch, raucous, blistering, beautiful, and totally indelible."

The Woman Who Climbed Trees (2023)
Smriti Ravindra
"The Woman Who Climbed Trees is a lyrical, furious triumph of a novel, mapping the marital journey of its protagonist, Meena, from girlhood to motherhood, from India to Nepal, from prosaic reality to magical madness. In the tradition of Salman Rushdie and Isabelle Allende, Smriti Ravindra braids epic lore and myth to a narrative of claustrophobic domesticity, earthly damage, and incandescent love."

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