Darcie Little Badger

Darcie Little Badger is a <u>Lipan Apache</u> writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, *Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Her third book, Sheine Lende*, is the prequel to Elatsoe and was a USA Today bestseller. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.