Darcie Little Badger

1987

Darcie Little Badger is a [Lipan Apache](https://www.lipanapache.org/) 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. Da