Mishell_Baker Knowpia

Mishell Baker (born 1976) is an American writer of 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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In 2016, Baker 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

The trilogy taken as a whole was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award.^[9]

^ ^a ^b "Mishell Baker". Simon & Schuster.
^ "Staff Pick: 'Borderline' by Mishell Baker".
^ "The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2016". 16 November 2016.
^ "'Borderline' Is Urban Fantasy With A Cinematic Punch". NPR.
^ Baker, Mishell (21 March 2017). Phantom Pains. ISBN 9781481451925.
^ "SFWA Announces 2016 Nebula, Norton, and Bradbury Award Nominees!". Nebula Awards. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
^ https://tiptree.org/2017/03/anna-marie-mclemore-wins-the-2016-tiptree-award-plus-honor-list-long-list-announcements ^{[dead link]}
^ "Nominees | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved 2022-03-10.
^ "The Mythopoeic Society: 2019 Mythopoeic Awards finalists announced". www.mythsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-03-10.