Mishell Baker is an American writer of fantasy and urban fantasy. A 2009 graduate of the Clarion Workshop, her fantasy stories have been published in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Electric Velocipede.[1]
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Born | 1976 |
Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
Nationality | American |
Period | 2009–present |
Genre | fantasy, Urban fantasy |
In 2016, she published Borderline, the first novel in The Arcadia Project urban fantasy series with Simon & Schuster's imprint Saga Press (edited by Navah Wolfe). It was a Publishers Weekly staff pick,[2] and Barnes & Noble chose it as one of the best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2016.[3] Borderline is notable for having a disabled protagonist with borderline personality disorder.[4]
The second and third books in the series, Phantom Pains and Impostor Syndrome, were released in 2017 and 2018 respectively.[5]
Mishell Baker lives in Los Angeles, California with her partner and two children.[1]
The Arcadia Project
Borderline was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel.[6]
Borderline was also included on the 2016 James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List.[7]
Borderline was nominated for the 2017 World Fantasy Award—Novel.[8]
The Arcadia Project Trilogy as a whole was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award.[9]
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