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: Science Fiction, 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
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)
Series contributed to
Some of the Best from Tor.com
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (2015) (with Charlie Jane Anders, Dale Bailey, Kelly Barnhill, Richard Bowes, Marie Brennan, Adam Christopher, John Chu, A M Dellamonica, Ruthanna Emrys, Max Gladstone, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Nicola Griffith, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Daniel José Older, Mary Rickert, John Scalzi, Veronica Schanoes, Genevieve Valentine, Jo Walton, Kai Ashante Wilson, Ray Wood and Isabel Yap)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 Edition (2016) (with Nino Cipri, Seth Dickinson, Jeffrey Ford, David Herter, Kameron Hurley, Noah Keller, Yoon Ha Lee, David D Levine, Michael Livingston, Usman T Malik, Haralambi Markov and Daniel José Older)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition (2021) (with Charlie Jane Anders, G V Anderson, Gregory Norman Bossert, Jeremy Packert Burke, Katharine Duckett, Brian Evenson, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Naomi James, Stephen Graham Jones, Justin C Key, Naomi Kritzer, Rich Larson, Yoon Ha Lee, S. Qiouyi Lu, Maureen F McHugh, Usman T Malik, Melissa Marr, Tamsyn Muir, Sarah Pinsker, C L Polk, Matthew Pridham, M Rickert, Zin E Rocklyn, Rachel Swirsky, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, Fran Wilde and Claire Wrenwood)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (2015) (with Charlie Jane Anders, Dale Bailey, Kelly Barnhill, Richard Bowes, Marie Brennan, Adam Christopher, John Chu, A M Dellamonica, Ruthanna Emrys, Max Gladstone, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Nicola Griffith, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Daniel José Older, Mary Rickert, John Scalzi, Veronica Schanoes, Genevieve Valentine, Jo Walton, Kai Ashante Wilson, Ray Wood and Isabel Yap)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 Edition (2016) (with Nino Cipri, Seth Dickinson, Jeffrey Ford, David Herter, Kameron Hurley, Noah Keller, Yoon Ha Lee, David D Levine, Michael Livingston, Usman T Malik, Haralambi Markov and Daniel José Older)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition (2021) (with Charlie Jane Anders, G V Anderson, Gregory Norman Bossert, Jeremy Packert Burke, Katharine Duckett, Brian Evenson, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Naomi James, Stephen Graham Jones, Justin C Key, Naomi Kritzer, Rich Larson, Yoon Ha Lee, S. Qiouyi Lu, Maureen F McHugh, Usman T Malik, Melissa Marr, Tamsyn Muir, Sarah Pinsker, C L Polk, Matthew Pridham, M Rickert, Zin E Rocklyn, Rachel Swirsky, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, Fran Wilde and Claire Wrenwood)
Non fiction
Awards
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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."

Sin Eater (2020)
Megan Campisi
"An in-depth, lyrical exploration of the forced reinvention of a teenage girl, ripped from her normal existence into a life of shifting public sins into feminine flesh, literally. Sin Eater is a thrilling surprise - Megan Campisi uses the history of patriarchal injustice to create a keenly researched feminist arc of unexpected abundance, reckoning, intellect, and ferocious survival."

Spear (2022)
Nicola Griffith
"Nicola Griffith braids the Percival tales to her own ferocious imagination, and the results are spellbinding. Her novel is a reclamation of the touchstones of Arthurian myth--skewering received notions with the sharp point of her pen. If that sounds too theoretical, let me also say that it's a screamingly hot canon-queering epic filled with bloody battles, and world-shaking magic. Spear is an unprecedented and spectacular investigation of the Matter of Britain. I've been waiting years for this book about the once and future everyone else to exist."
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