Maria Dahvana Headley
http://www.mariadahvanaheadley.com

Books:
Queen of Kings, May 2012


Maria Dahvana Headley

Photo by Kyle Cassidy, 2011

Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the historical fantasy QUEEN OF KINGS, (Dutton, May, 2011) the first volume of a trilogy. Previously, she wrote The Year of Yes: A Memoir, which has been translated into nine languages, and optioned for television and film by, respectively, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures. She has appeared as a featured author and speaker at venues including The Texas Book Festival and Wordstock, and has been interviewed on a variety of national and international television and radio programs, including The Today Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and many more. Her writing has appeared in and/or been excerpted in a number of literary anthologies, The New York Times, Elle, The Washington Post, and more. As a playwright, she is the creator of The Upstart Crow Project, an organization which will commission 37 female playwrights to adapt all the plays of Shakespeare into contemporary versions. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow. She lives in Seattle, with her husband, playwright and screenwriter Robert Schenkkan, and two warlike Bengal cats.