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Maria Dahvana Headley
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Maria Dahvana Headley

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Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and editor, most recently of the novels Magonia, Aerie, and Queen of Kings and the memoir The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard she is the co-author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman she is the coeditor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of this book was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn.

Books by Maria Dahvana Headley

Queen of Kings

Passion and seduction, witches and warriors, ancient history and mythology combine to bring the timeless story of Cleopatra to life like never before in this thrillingly original and spellbinding debut...

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