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, Paranormal Romance
Series
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)
Nevertheless She Persisted (2020)
Novels
Queen of Kings (2011)
The Dark Lady (2013)
The Mere Wife (2018)
The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods (2020)
The Dark Lady (2013)
The Mere Wife (2018)
The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods (2020)
Collections
The Book of the Dead (2013) (with Jesse Bullington and Paul Cornell)
Beowulf: A New Translation (poems) (2020)
Beowulf: A New Translation (poems) (2020)
Novellas and Short Stories
The End of the Sentence (2014) (with Kat Howard)
The Tallest Doll in New York City (2014)
Some Gods of El Paso (2015)
The Tallest Doll in New York City (2014)
Some Gods of El Paso (2015)
Non fiction show
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."
More recommendations
Anthologies 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
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Awards
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