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 new adult novel THE MERE WIFE is set for a 2017 release by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, and a sequel to MAGONIA will be released in 2016. Her Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Uncanny, Nightmare, Tor.com, Shimmer, Apex, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Subterranean Online, The Toast, and more. She is anthologized in the 2012 and 2013 editions of Rich Horton's The Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, Paula Guran's 2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and Wastelands 2, Glitter & Mayhem, Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven, The Book of the Dead, and Laird Barron's The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1. Her work has been supported by The MacDowell Colony, and Arte Studio Ginestrelle, among other fantastic organizations. She grew up in rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn.