DARCIE LITTLE BADGER, a Lipan Apache writer with a Ph.D. in oceanography, is the author of Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe (Levine Querido). Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received the Newbery Honor, was a Los Angeles Times book prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
