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Darcie Little Badger

23 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
May 2014 |8 Short Fiction Siren Song Dark Eclipse, Issue Number 34
December 2014 Short Fiction Nkásht íí Strange Horizons, 15 December 2014
June 2015 |4 Short Fiction The Girl Turns West Mirror Dance, Summer 2015
September 2015 Short Fiction When Whales Fall The Colored Lens, Autumn 2015
August 2016 23 Short Fiction Our Laughing Gale Spirit's Tincture, August 2016
December 2016 |19 Interview Author Spotlight: Darcie Little Badger (Fantasy Magazine, December 2016) Fantasy Magazine, December 2016
December 2016 |2 Short Fiction Black, Their Regalia Fantasy Magazine, December 2016
2017 |20 Essay Hopefulbright to the Rescue! People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
January 2017 |7 Essay Decolonizing Science Fiction and Imagining Futures: An Indigenous Futurisms Roundtable Strange Horizons, 30 January 2017
January 2017 Essay Looking Ahead to 2017 GlitterShip, Winter 2017
January 2017 Short Fiction The Famine King Mythic Delirium, Issue 3.3, January–March 2017
July 2017 |1 Short Fiction Owl vs. the Neighborhood Watch Strange Horizons, 10 July 2017
October 2017 |1 Short Fiction The Whalebone Parrot The Dark, October 2017
October 2018 |3 Essay Guns. How Primitive. Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special, 11 October 2018
July 2019 |7 Review Killer Echinoderms in Indian History Strange Horizons, 29 July 2019
August 2019 |6 Essay When Danger Is Announced Nightmare Magazine, August 2019
February 2020 |6 Review Into Bones Like Oil Strange Horizons, 24 February 2020
February 2020 Short Fiction Skinwalker, Fast-Talker LeVar Burton Reads, February 24, 2020
May 2020 Short Fiction Unlike Most Tides The Drabblecast, #425
July 2022 Short Fiction Robo-Liopleurodon! Cast of Wonders, #499
October 2022 |5.5 Review A Snake Falls to Earth Strange Horizons, 17 October 2022
April 2023 Short Fiction Those Hitchhiking Kids The Sunday Morning Transport, April 2, 2023
September 2025 Short Fiction The LIar Cast of Wonders, 14 September 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Whalebone Parrot Nominee
2021 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award Elatsoe Nominee
2021 British Science Fiction Award Best Book for Younger Readers A Snake Falls to Earth Nominee
2021 Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel Elatsoe Nominee
2021 Ignyte Award Best Novel - YA Elatsoe Nominee
2021 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Elatsoe Winner
2021 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Unlike Most Tides Nominee
2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Best Young Adult Book Elatsoe Finalist
2022 Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel A Snake Falls to Earth Nominee
2022 Ignyte Award Best Novel - YA A Snake Falls to Earth Winner
2022 John Newbery Medal Newbery Medal A Snake Falls to Earth Nominee
2022 Locus Poll Award Best Young Adult Book A Snake Falls to Earth Finalist
2022 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Best Young Adult Book A Snake Falls to Earth Finalist
2022 Nebula Award Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction A Snake Falls to Earth Winner
2022 The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction A Snake Falls to Earth Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Those Hitchhiking Kids Finalist
2025 Ignyte Award Best Novel - YA Sheine Lende Nominee
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Young Adult Book Sheine Lende Runner-up
2025 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Best Young Adult Book Sheine Lende Winner
2025 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature Sheine Lende Nominee

Lipan Apache writer and scientist. Author of fiction, comics, and research articles about toxin-producing phytoplankton. Pronouns: she/her.
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