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Maria Dahvana Headley


USA flag (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, Paranormal Romance
 
Novels
   Queen of Kings (2011)
   The Dark Lady (2013)
   The Mere Wife (2018)
   The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods (2020)
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Maria Dahvana Headley recommends
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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."
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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."
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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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Anthologies containing stories by Maria Dahvana Headley
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Three (2022)
(Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, book 3)
edited by
Paula Guran
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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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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition (2021)
(Some of the Best from Tor.com)

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Awards
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2019) : The Mere Wife


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