Maria Headley is an American novelist, memoirist, editor, and playwright. She is a New York Times-bestselling author as well as editor. Her work includes the young-adult space-fantasy novel Magonia and Queen of Kings, an alternate-history fantasy novel about Cleopatra. Her short story "Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream," originally published in Lightspeed magazine in July 2012, was a 2012 Nebula Award nominee. Her short story "The Traditional" was a finalist for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award. In addition to being a MacDowell Fellow, Headley has attended The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Sundance Playwright's Lab, The Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices workshop, Brave New Works, and the WordBridge Playwright's Lab. She has been a featured author at ABA Winter Institute, Bumbershoot, Wordstock, and the Texas Book Festival. In 2017, she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in Short Fiction for “Little Widow.”
Maria Headley
Studios
Heyward
Maria Headley worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…