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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.

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Paranormal Romance

Series

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

Flash Fiction Project (with Charlie Jane Anders, Brooke Bolander, Amal El-Mohtar, Kameron Hurley, Seanan McGuire, Nisi Shawl, Catherynne M Valente, Carrie Vaughn, Jo Walton and Alyssa Wong)
Nevertheless She Persisted (2020)

Novels

   Queen of Kings (2011)
   The Dark Lady (2013)
   The Mere Wife (2018)
   The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods (2020)

Omnibus

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 (2016) (with Nino Cipri, Seth Dickinson, Jeffrey Ford, David Herter, Kameron Hurley, Daniel Jos, Noah Keller, Yoon Ha Lee, David D Levine, Michael Livingston, Usman T Malik and Haralambi Markov)

Collections

The Book of the Dead (2013) (with Jesse Bullington and Paul Cornell)
Beowulf: A New Translation (poems) (2019)

Novellas

   The End of the Sentence (2014) (with Kat Howard)
   The Tallest Doll in New York City (2014)
   Some Gods of El Paso (2015)

Non fiction

The Year of Yes (2006)

Maria Dahvana Headley recommends

The Art of Starving (2017)
Sam J Miller
"As gritty with salted wounds as are all great fairytales, The Art of Starving is The Outsiders with superpowers. It should be shelved alongside the classic stories of unexpected salvation."

Lake City (2019)
Thomas Kohnstamm
"Kohnstamm has written a novel of Pale Male Fail above and below the poverty line, a Dickensian tale of a fledgling philosopher who’s taken flight from trailer parks to Gramercy Park and then . . . had his wings clipped. This is the American Dream cut thin on a grocery store meat slicer, laced with oxy, stolen booze, and an unfinished dissertation. It’s a rotgut to Dom Pérignon rainbow, which is to say: Lake City is a crucial black comedy about the myths of money and happiness, and whether nature, nurture, or AmEx rears a better man."

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