Maria Dahvana Headley
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Maria Dahvana Headley
@mariadahvana.bsky.social
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NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
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Pixar should do a TOY STORY about a group of Beanie Babies who've been in storage for over two decades and have turned into Gormenghast.
I'm in Chicago giving a speech, and stopped by a protest this morning before heading to the airport. Chicago, I love you. People taking care of each other everywhere I went.
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Also happy stories
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
Basically my personal neurodivergence has resulted in a lot of food for my friends and neighbors, because if I don't have anyone else to feed, it's totally possible for me to forget food and just live inside my brain, feral.
The best coping mechanism for this is one I discovered while writing Mere Wife at an artists retreat in Italy. Every day at 5, I force-removed myself from the computer, and went inside to cook dinner for the other residents. If I hadn't, I would've stayed outside living on walnuts.
Sometimes this kind of hyperfocus brain is amazing - I have been known to draft a novel in 4 weeks, or translate an epic in a few months. But I have to watch myself when alone or I'm like an anchorite without any food-bringing novices.
My ADHD brain is often awesome when hyperfocused, but for several days it's been clamped tight on an editing project, & as a result I have been unable to do anything but frantically edit, living on handfuls of trail mix. This sounds good, I know, but man, it's intense to have this kind of brain.
Also, I totally benefited from the milk of two other people I knew who had a lot of milk - my kid got to enjoy their antibodies too, which I think is awesome. Some people make a lot of milk. Some don't. But this study made me feel happy - usually breast milk studies make me feel sad.
Ps: there's an interview with Meghan on the link. The upshot of the study is: even a little breast milk has substantial benefit - so, if you're like me & every drop is a battle, even a few days worth does the trick. Also Meghan's goal is to get those benefits isolated and into formula too. ❤️
Read More Grimoires. In honor of the small Grimoire in the middle.
A 20th Century cocktail in a coupe, sandwiched between two halves of a golden crocodile bookend. 20th Century's are good - 1.5 oz gin, 1/2 oz Lillet blanc, 3/4 oz lemon juice, 1/2 oz white crème de cacao, shaken. Named after a train.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ best nerd moment!! Thank you!!
I went to a huge party and thought a bunch of people would know. But no one knew what I was...except for people who were already my friends! Hahaha
Also, related, the time I was the Voynich Manuscript for Halloween and painted my own version of Voynich and made it into a manuscript dress.
Wheee! Exciting to see this replaying - it's an awesome performance by Becca Blackwell, and also one of my favorite stories I've ever written.
On this week's Selected Shorts episode, actors Teagle F. Bougere, Becca Blackwell, and Jane Curtin perform stories by Meron Hadero, @mariadahvana.bsky.social, and Anne Tyler. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/4mSJgs0
(Photos by Kevin Yatarola)
This is my favorite thing I've seen in ages, and also it is precisely my daily life with a 6-year-old lair companion named Grimoire, and a whole bunch of facsimile codices on the shelves.
Not sure? It's a medieval monster conference keynote, so I don't think it's being streamed? But it might be.
I'm coming to Chicago to talk about medieval monsters...
Just in case any of you are in rhe Midwest and want to attend this Medieval Monsters conference, I'm giving the keynote on Oct 17! www.dom.edu/medieval-mon...
Medieval + Monsters Conference | Dominican University
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