Maria Dahvana Headley is a novelist, editor, translator, poet, and playwright. Headley's work has appeared in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Uncanny, The Dark, The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, PodCastle, Clarkesworld, Apex, and Subterranean, and have been collected in anthologies. Her first book, "Queen of Kings," was published in 2011. She has published five books, including her 2020 translation of "Beowulf."