Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley (born June 21, 1977 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American novelist, memoirist, editor, and playwright. She is a New York Times-bestselling author as well as editor.

Her work includes the New York Times-bestselling young adult fantasy novel, "Magonia" (Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2015), the alternate history/fantasy novel, Queen of Kings, published in 2011. Her short story,Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream was a 2012 Nebula Award nominee, in the short story category, and originally published in Lightspeed magazine in July 2012. Her short story, "The Traditional" was a finalist for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award.

Maria Dahvana Headley was born June 21, 1977 in Estacada, Oregon. After graduating from Vallivue High School in Caldwell, Idaho, in 1995, she attended New York University, where she studied dramatic writing at the Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program.

In October, 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux editor Sean McDonald acquired "The Mere Wife" at auction.

"Best-selling Magonia author, Maria Dahvana Headley’s THE MERE WIFE, a ferocious, sexy, and politically topical literary adaptation of Beowulf set in present-day New York, to Sean McDonald at FSG at auction by Stephanie Cabot at The Gernert Company (NA)."

In 2014, HarperCollins acquired the young adult novel "Magonia" and a sequel. Magonia, the story of a 16-year-old girl with a mysterious breathing disease who finds herself on a sky ship in the historical kingdom of Magonia, was published in April 2015. It received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly in February, 2015.

In early 2010, Dutton purchased Headley's debut novel Queen of Kings, which explores "the transcendent powers of love even beyond death, entwining the true story of Antony and Cleopatra and Rome's invasion of Alexandria with a narrative in which the Queen of Egypt sacrifices her soul to save her fallen husband and in return is transformed into an immortal goddess bent on the destruction of the Roman Empire". It was purchased as part of a trilogy deal. The hardcover was released in 2011.

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