Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the young adult fantasy novel Magonia (HarperCollins), the dark fantasy/alt-history novel Queen of Kings (Dutton), and the internationally bestselling memoir The Year of Yes (Hyperion). With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-bestselling co-editor of the anthology Unnatural Creatures (HarperChildrens), benefitting 826DC. With Kat Howard, she is the author of the novella The End of the Sentence (Subterranean Press) - one of NPR's Best Books of 2014. Her Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated short fiction has recently appeared in Lightspeed, Uncanny, Nightmare, Tor.com, Apex, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Subterranean Online, Glitter & Mayhem, and is anthologized in a variety of Year's Bests, including Year's Best Weird. She lives in Brooklyn and on the internet at Twitter: @MariaDahvana and www.mariadahvanaheadley.com