Darcie Little Badger

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Darcie Little Badger
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Born1987 (age 34–35)
OccupationAuthor
Alma materPrinceton University, Texas A&M University
Notable worksElatsoe

Darcie Little Badger (born 1987) is an author and an Earth scientist.

As an author, she specializes in speculative fiction, especially horror, science fiction and fantasy. Further, as a Lipan Apache, she develops her stories with Apache characters and themes. She has also added her voice to Indigenous Futurisms, a movement among Native artists and authors to write science fiction from their historical and cultural perspectives. At the same time, some of her works feature characters who reconfirm the presence and importance of LGBTQ+ community-members.

Family and education[]

Little Badger's father, Patrick Ryan, was an English professor; her mother, Hermelinda Walking Woman, is the Executive Director for Policy of the Lipan Apache Tribe (also known as the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas).[1] She also serves as a delegate for the Tribe to the National Congress of American Indians.[2] After graduating with honors from Pleasant Grove High School in Texarkana, Texas, she attended Princeton University in New Jersey, where she earned a bachelor's degree in geoscience. Little Badger graduated cum laude and was honored by her department with the Arthur F. Buddington Award for Overall Excellence as an undergraduate student. She subsequently enrolled in the doctoral program in oceanography at Texas A&M University, College Station, where she earned a Ph.D. She wrote her dissertation on the genomics of Karenia brevis, a species of plankton that causes toxic red tide in the Gulf of Mexico. For her valuable research, she received a Ford Dissertation Fellowship[3] and TAMU's Chapman Award for Graduate Student Research.[4]

Short fiction and Apache influence[]

Little Badger's short fiction has appeared in a range of publications, including Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Mythic Delirium, and The Dark, among others. Notably, Little Badger enriches her short stories with Apache history and lore. For example, two Apache sisters reunite in "Whalebone Parrot"[5] (The Dark Magazine, 2017), a Victorian horror story set in the late 19th century on an island in the Atlantic. During the conflict between their tribe and the U.S. Army, the women were orphaned and grew up together in a residential "Indian school". Thus, as Little Badger notes, her story is rooted in Lipan Apache history, a history that "few remember". Similarly, in "Owl vs. the Neighborhood Watch"[6] (Strange Horizons, 2017), she revives Native legend when she places Owl, a shape-shifting supernatural harbinger of evil, in a story set in contemporary Appalachia.

Debut novel, Elatsoe[]

Little Badger's debut novel Elatsoe[7] was released in August 2020 by publisher Levine Querido and made the Indibound Young Adult bestseller list in its first week.[8] The story is set in modern-day Texas; the main character Ellie is a seventeen-year-old Lipan Apache. Ellie is accompanied by the ghost of her pet dog Kirby. She has used her grandmothers' traditional techniques to bring him back to life. Kirby and Ellie are joined by Ellie's friend and classmate Jay as they work to solve the murder of her cousin. At the same time, they confront an enclave of vampires plaguing people near Willowbee, a mysterious town in South Texas.[9][10]

Indigenous Futurisms[]

Indigenous Futurisms is a growing movement in the arts and literature in which Native writers create science fiction and fantasy with characters and themes drawn from indigenous cultures.[11][12] In 2012, Prof. Grace Dillon formalized the study of Indigenous Futurisms with publication of Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction.[13] With much of her science fiction, Little Badger has contributed to Indigenous Futurisms.[14][15] In Strangelands, for example, Little Badger introduces an Apache comic book superhero. In her short story "Né łe!"[16] the main characters are a Navajo interplanetary ship's captain and a Lipan Apache veterinarian accompanying 40 chihuahuas on their way to forever homes on Mars.

Published works[]

Novels[]

  • Elatsoe (August 25, 2020). ISBN 978-1-64614-005-3
  • A Snake Falls to Earth (November 23, 2021). ISBN 978-1-64614-092-3

Short fiction[]

  • "The Orphan of Greenridge (Water)" in The Dystopia Triptych #1: Ignorance is Strength, ed. by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (2020) ISBN 978-1-7965-4959-1
  • "How to Use Your Visor Evacuation Helper to Escape an Active Warzone (Fire)" in The Dystopia Triptych #2: Burn the Ashes, ed. by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (2020) ISBN 978-1-7965-4952-2
  • "Making Faces (Earth)" in The Dystopia Triptych #3: Or Else the Light, ed. by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (2020) ISBN 978-1-7965-4965-2
  • "Venom and Bite" in Black Gate: Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die (December 23, 2020)
  • "Story for a Bottle" in TBA Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, ed. Joshua Whitehead (2020), Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN 978-1-551-52811-3
  • "Unlike Most Tides" in Drabblecast 425 (2020)
  • "Grace" in Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance, ed. Bethany C. Morrow (2019), Scholastic Publishing ISBN 978-1-338-34370-0
  • "Homecoming" in Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance, ed. Bethany C. Morrow (2019), Scholastic Publishing ISBN 978-1-338-34370-0
  • "Robo-Liopleurodon!" Robot Dinosaurs (2018)
  • "Kelsey and the Burdened Breath" in "New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color" (2018). ISBN 1781085781
  • "The Whalebone Parrot" in The Dark Magazine (October 2017)
  • "Owl vs. The Neighborhood Watch" in Strange Horizons (July 10, 2017) and in Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends (May 14, 2019) ISBN 978-1-59780-958-0
  • "Skinwalker, Fast-Talker" in No Sh!t, There I Was: An Anthology of Short Speculative Fiction. (February 15, 2017) ISBN 978-1-939840-39-4
  • "Their Laughing Gal" in Spirit's Tincture: Speculative Fiction & Poetry Issue 1 (August 31, 2016)
  • Né łe! in Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time (October 1, 2016) ISBN 978-0-9939970-7-5
  • "When Whales Fall" in The Colored Lens: Speculative Fiction Magazine (January 19, 2016)
  • "The Girl Turns West" in Mirror Dance Magazine (2015)
  • "The Sea Under Texas" in Quantum Fairy Tales Issue #11 (2015)
  • "Nkásht íí" in Strange Horizons Issue 15 (December 15, 2014) and in Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (October 15, 2015) ISBN 1590215702
  • "Siren Son" in "Dark Eclipse e-magazine #34 (2014)
  • "First Ride of the Day" in "Vignettes from the End of the World" Volume 2 (April 25, 2014) ISBN 978-1-4974-3118-8
  • "To Sleep" in Fiction 365 (2012)

Comic books[]

  • Superman Red and Blue #6: Son of Farmers (October 2021), Darcie Little Badger (writer), Steve Pugh (artist), Pat Brosseau (letters). UPC +5 code 7-6194137131-3-00611
  • The United States of Captain America' #3: Joe Gomez Backstory (August 25, 2021), Darcie Little Badger (writer), David Cutler (artist). UPC +5 code 7-5960620100-6-00311
  • Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices Issue 1: Dani Moonstar Story (November 2020), Darcie Little Badger (writer), Kyle Charles (artist). UPC +5 code 7-59606-20024-5-00111
  • "Worst Bargain in Town" in Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume Two, (2017). ISBN 978-0-9877152-6-5
  • Strangelands, co-written with Darcie Little Badger and Magdalene Vissagio
    • "Faith Alone" Issue 1 (July 10, 2019) UPC +5 code 6-55160-79162-8-00111
    • "Dance Macabre" Issue 2 (August 21, 2019) UPC +5 code 655160791628-00211
    • "Feel Your Pain" Issue 3 (September 25, 2019) UPC +5 code 6-55160-79162-8-00311
    • "Dance Apocalyptic" Issue 4 (October 16, 2019) UPC +5 code 6-55160-79162-8-00411
    • "Adrift" Issue 5 (January 15, 2020) UPC +5 code 6-55160-79162-8-00511
    • "Man of Substance" Issue 6 (February 26, 2020) UPC +5 code 6-55160-79162-8-00611
    • "Collision Course" Issue 7 (March 25, 2020) UPC +5 code 6-55160-79162-8-00711
    • "The Passage" Issue 8 (August 5, 2020) UPC +5 code 6-55160-79162-8-00811
  • "Litmus Flowers" in Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume Three, (2020). ISBN 978-0-2287-0622-9

Nonfiction[]

  • "When Danger is Announced" in Nightmare Magazine Issue 83 (August 2019)
  • "Decolonizing Science Fiction and Imagining Futures: An Indigenous Futurisms Roundtable" in Strange Horizons Issue 30 (January 2017) with Rebecca Roanhorse, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Johnnie Jae
  • "Writer's Manifesto: Interview with Darcie Little Badger" in Cicada Magazine Volume 19 (July/August 2017)

Awards and honors[]

For Elatsoe[]

  • 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Awards Honor Book[17]
  • 2021 Locus Award First Novel, Winner[18]
  • 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Finalist[19]
  • 2020 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction Finalist[20]
  • Global Read Aloud Selection-Young Adult[21]
  • Golden Kite Award Honor-Young Adult Fiction[22]
  • A National Indie Bestseller, 12 weeks[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
  • PNBA Bestseller[35]
  • Time's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time[36]
  • An NPR Best Book of 2020[37]
  • A BookPage Best Book of 2020[38]
  • CPL's Best of the Best Books of 2020[39]
  • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020[40]
  • A Buzzfeed's Best YA SFF Book of 2020[41]
  • A Shelf Awareness's Best Children's & Teen Books of 2020[42]
  • An AICL Best YA Book of 2020[43]
  • A NEIBA Windows & Mirrors Selection[44]
  • A NEIBA Book Award Finalist[45]
  • A Tor Best Book of 2020[46]
  • A Kirkus Best YA Book of 2020[47]

For A Snake Falls to Earth[]

  • 2022 Newberry Honor Book[48]
  • 2022 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults[49]
  • 2021 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction Finalist[50]
  • 2021 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People's Literature[51]
  • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021[52]
  • A National Indie Bestseller, 8 weeks[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]
  • A Kirkus’ Best of 2021-YA Books[61]
  • A Tor.com Reviewer's Choice The Best Books of 2021[62]
  • A New York Public Library Best Books of 2021: Teens[63]
  • A CPL's Best of the Best Books of 2021: Teens[64]

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  4. ^ "Oceanography Student Award Recipients". Texas A&M College of Geosciences News. Texas A&M University. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  5. ^ Little Badger, Darcie (October 2017). "Whalebone Parrot". The Dark Magazine (29). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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