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By Mike Brooks

In this debut space epic, a crew of thieves and con artists take on a job that could pay off a lot of debts in a corrupt galaxy where life is cheap and criminals are the best people in it. The Keiko is a ship of smugglers, soldiers of fortune, and adventurers traveling Earth’s colony planets searching for the next job. And they never talk about their past—until now. Captain Ichabod Drift is being blackmailed. He has to deliver a special cargo to Earth, and no one can know they’re there. It’s what they call a dark run. . . . And it may be their last. PRAISE FOR DARK RUN: “Brooks’s terrific debut demonstrates that a good caper tale can take place anywhere, even in interstellar space. Fans of rip-roaring space adventures will greatly enjoy this one.”—Publishers Weekly “Brooks turns in an enjoyable adventure that has all of the fast action and clever dialog fans of the genre look for, with well-drawn secondary characters who also have moments to shine. Suggest this debut to enthusiasts of caper plots and stories such as Chris Wooding’s Ketty Jay novels, and, of course, Firefly.”—Library Journal “Brooks has concocted a space opera full of fast talk, action, and gratuitous violence. Brooks delivers an old-fashioned space Western peopled with likable, flawed characters who gallop across an entertaining page-turner.”— Kirkus Reviews “Dark Run deserves to be this year’s breakout. A space opera in the rollicking tradition of Timothy Zahn, John Scalzi, James S. A. Corey, C. J. Cherryh.”—Barnes and Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog Publication Date: May 2016 Page Extent: 352 pp RIGHTS SOLD: German, Russian, UK

MIKE BROOKS was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, in the UK and moved to Nottingham. When not working for a homelessness charity, he plays guitar and sings in a punk band; watches football, MMA, and nature/science documentaries; goes walking in the Peak District or other areas of splendid scenery; and deejays wherever anyone will tolerate him. And, y’know, writes.

THE WINTER DRAGON (W.T.)

By Rachel Neumeier

A dark, sweeping fantasy in which two determined leaders must make the ultimate sacrifice to save their world With the Mad King of Emmer to the north and the vicious King of Pohorir to the east, Kehera Raehema knows her country is facing difficult times, but she never expected to be asked to give up everything she loves to save her people. Yet when the Mad King’s fury sets her land in the greatest peril, she has no choice but to try any stratagem that might buy time for her people to prepare for war, no matter the personal cost.

Publication Date: November 2017 Page Extent: 416 pp

THE MOUNTAIN OF KEPT MEMORY

By Rachel Neumeier

A gorgeous epic fantasy in the spirit of Guy Gavriel Kay and Robin McKinley. Gulien Madalin, heir to the throne of Carastind, is more interested in ancient history than in the business of government. Or watching his father govern, for Gelder Madalin, king of Carastind, does not share power. But then Gulien discovers that his father may have angered the ancient goddess who protects Carastind—so seriously that she’s withdrawn her protection from his homeland. And Carastind’s enemies have discovered this too—and invasion is imminent. Gulien’s sister, Oressa, knows what’s important: avoiding her father’s attention while keeping track of all the secrets of the court. But when Carastind is invaded by their most terrible enemies, Oressa may have to step into the spotlight for the first time in order to save her country.

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Hundreds of miles away, the pitiless Wolf Duke of Pohorir, Innisth Eanete, dreams of breaking his people and his province free of the king he despises. But he has no way to make that happen. . . . until chance or the Fortunate Gods unexpectedly leave Kehera on his doorstep and at his mercy. As the year rushes toward the dangerous midwinter, Kehera and Innisth find themselves unwilling allies, their joined strength all that stands between the peoples of the Four Kingdoms and utter catastrophe.

Now Gulien and Oressa must each decide where their most important loyalties lie, and what price they are willing to pay in order to protect their home, and the world. Publication Date: November 2016 Page Extent: 448 pp

RACHEL NEUMEIER is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The City in the Lake and House of Shadows. She now raises and shows dogs, gardens, cooks, and occasionally finds time to read. She works part-time for a tutoring program, though she tutors far more students in math and chemistry than in English composition. 3

AN UNKINDNESS OF MAGICIANS

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By Kat Howard

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Set within the unseen magical world of New York City, where standing within the magical world is governed by power, and social status can be gained or lost with magical duels Sydney is the rare duelist from the formidable House of Shadows. With power unmatched, she plans to take it all down. Kat’s debut novel, Roses and Rot, received critical acclaim including two starred reviews: Publishers Weekly: Best Books of Summer 2016 for SF/Fantasy/Horror Huffington Post: Five Debut Fantasies to Look Out for in 2016 BookRiot: Five Most Popular Books of the Month: May 2016 PRAISE FOR ROSES & ROT: “Kat Howard is a remarkable young writer, and she’s written a powerful first novel, as strong as Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks. This is a book about family, about the price we’re willing to pay for art, and the strange music and haunting glades of faerie.”—Neil Gaiman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Gods and Trigger Warning

H “Howard weaves a dark and enticing tale of sisterly bonds, fairy promises, and the price of artistic success in this lushly written debut fantasy set in the present-day US. This story will resonate with readers long after the last page.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) H “The realm of fairy tales meets the harsh world of the Fae in this starkly enticing debut. With undercurrents of darkness in the midst of the beauty of the arts, this is a Brothers Grimm tale for the contemporary reader.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Howard’s depiction of magic and the arts is thrillingly intertwined, positing a gossamer boundary between the two. The narrative is enriched by the author’s extensive knowledge of mythology, folktale, and fairy tales.”—Huffington Post Publication Date: September 2017 Page Extent: 352 pp

KAT HOWARD’S short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in best-of collections, and performed on NPR. Roses and Rot was her critically acclaimed debut novel. She lives in New Hampshire.

THE ARCADIA PROJECT #2: PHANTOM PAINS By Mishell Baker

Millie thought she was out . . . until an impossible, deadly situation pulls her back in. The second book in the series that New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire called “exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted.” Four months ago, Millie left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie fey countess. Now, on what’s meant to be a last visit to the scene of the crime, Millie and her former boss, Caryl, encounter what seems to be Teo’s tormented ghost. One problem: according to Caryl, ghosts don’t exist.

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H “Fully articulated, flawed, and fascinating characters combine with masterly urban fantasy storytelling in Baker’s debut novel . . . [a] beautifully written story that is one part mystery, one part fantasy, and wholly engrossing.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) H “Baker’s debut takes gritty urban fantasy in a new direction with flawed characters, painful life lessons, and not a small amount of humor.”—Library Journal (starred review)

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Millie has a new life, a stressful new job, and no time to get pulled back into the Project’s chaos, but she agrees to tell agents from the Project’s National Headquarters her side of the ghost story. During her visit, an agent is gruesomely murdered in a way only Caryl could have accomplished. Millie knows Caryl is innocent, but the only way to save her from the Project’s severe, off-the-books justice is to uncover the mystery behind incorporeal fey known as wraiths. Why has the centuries-old Project never heard of them? Why are they tormenting and killing innocent people? And how do you fight an enemy that is only seen when it wants to be seen? Millie must answer these questions not only to save Caryl, but to foil an insidious arcane terrorist plot that would leave two worlds in ruins.

“A fast-paced story of high costs laced with humor that goes from lighthearted to scathing with the flip of a coin . . . navigates the borderlands of friendship and enmity, trust and betrayal, with shrewd and unrelenting grace.”—NPR Books Publication Date: March 2017 Page Extent: 416 pp

MISHELL BAKER is the author of Borderline. She is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and her short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Redstone Science Fiction, and Electric Velocipode. 5

ROBOTS VS. FAIRIES

Edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe

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Robots, the classic sci-fi phenomenon. From Isaac Asimov to WALL-E, from Philip K. Dick to The Terminator, robots continue to be iconic in science fiction literature and media. Fairies are the unquestionable rulers of fantastic fiction. From Tinkerbell to Tam Lin, from True Blood to Once Upon a Time, fairies are beloved icons of fantastic fiction. Both have proven to be infinitely fun, flexible, and challenging. But when you pit them against each other, which will triumph as the greatest genre symbol of all time? There can be only one. Or can there? Featuring stories by critically acclaimed and award-winning writers such as Catherynne M. Valente, Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, Delilah S. Dawson, Seanan McGuire, John Scalzi, Scott Lynch, and many more, this anthology challenges its authors to choose a side and declare it with a story that celebrates robots or fairies! From science fiction to fantasy, and all the permutations in between, Robots vs. Fairies will take readers on a glitter-bombed journey of a techno-fantasy mash-up. Publication Date: November 2017 Page Extent: 350 pp

DOMINIK PARISIEN is an editor, poet, and writer. He is the coeditor, along with Navah Wolfe, of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, and the editor of Clockwork Canada (Exile Editions). HHis fiction and poetry have appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Shock Totem, Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, and other venues. His fiction has been twice nominated for the Sunburst Award.

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An anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre death-match and demands an answer to the age-old question: Which is more awesome, robots or fairies?

NAVAH WOLFE is an editor at Saga Press, Simon & Schuster’s science fiction and fantasy imprint. She is the coeditor, along with Dominik Parisien, of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. She was previously an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she worked on many bestselling books, including some that have won awards such as the Printz Honor, the Pura Belpré Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, the Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Schneider Family Book Award.

By Zachary Brown

John Ringo meets New York Times bestseller John Scalzi in this military science fiction series.

Barnes and Noble’s Science Fiction blog called Book One in the Icarus Corps series, The Darkside War: “A lightning-fast adventure, filled with aliens, conquests, and all the technology you could ask for.” And Book Two ups the ante! In Titan’s Fall, the team wages war against the invading alien armada on Titan, trying to hold them back before they get closer to Earth. Nominated for both the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, the authors writing as Zachary Brown create a riveting concluding volume of the Icarus Corps trilogy. The outgunned Colonial Protection Forces make a desperate attack at Jupiter to hold the Conglomeration forces at bay, only to have a greater threat revealed as we find out why the Conglomeration–Accordance war has been raging across the galaxy.

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THE ICARUS CORPS #1: THE DARKSIDE WAR #2: TITAN’S FALL #3: JUPITER RISING

Publication Date: #1: March 2015; #2: March 2016 Page Extent: #1: 240 pp; #2: 224 pp

ZACHARY BROWN is the series pseudonym for Nebula Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Tobias Buckell (Books One and Two) and World Fantasy Award nominee Karen Lord (Book Three).

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A far-reaching character-driven space opera from critically acclaimed author Cassandra Rose Clarke The Coromina family owns a small planet system: the Four Sisters. There, Phillip Coromina has built his family business into a galaxy-spanning empire. And throughout it all, he has groomed his oldest daughter, Esme, to be his heir. But when Esme comes of age and starts taking on more and more responsibilities, she begins to discover the reach of her father’s company, the sinister aspects of its work with alien DNA, and a shocking betrayal that estranges her from her three half sisters. Now, Esme must decide whether to fulfill her father’s dying wish—or blaze her own path. And her choice will redefine the shape of the galaxy’s future forever. “Clarke is a terrific rising voice in our genre.”—Hugo award–winning author Elizabeth Bear Publication Date: March 2017 Page Extent: 448 pp

CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE is the author of Our Lady of the Ice. In 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, where she was a recipient of the Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund. Cassandra’s first adult novel, The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, was a finalist for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award, and her YA novel, The Assassin’s Curse, was nominated for YALSA’s 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Daily Science Fiction.

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By Cassandra Rose Clarke

A pirate princess and a cursed assassin find their fates intertwined in a gorgeous, character-driven adventure. Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an allied pirate clan—she wants to captain her own boat, not serve as second-in-command to her handsome yet clueless fiancé. But her escape has dire consequences when she learns the scorned clan has sent an assassin after her. And when the assassin, Naji, finally catches up with her, things get even worse. Ananna inadvertently triggers a nasty curse—with a life-altering result. Now Ananna and Naji are forced to become uneasy allies as they work to cure the curse by completing three impossible tasks.

Previously published as The Assassin’s Curse and The Pirate’s Wish. Publication Date: February 2017 Page Extent: 608 pp

MAGIC OF WIND AND MIST

By Cassandra Rose Clarke

A wannabe witch with hopes of adventure finds herself on a journey that turns her world upside down—and takes her beyond her wildest dreams. Hanna has spent her life hearing about the adventures of her namesake Ananna, the lady pirate, and assassin Naji. She dreams of the same adventures, but little does she know she is about to tumble into one of her own. Hanna is apprenticed to a taciturn fisherman called Kolur, and during a day of storms and darkness they are swept wildly off course. In this strange new land, Kolur hires a stranger to join the crew and, rather than heading home, sets a course for the dangerous island of Jadanvar. As Hanna meets a secretive merboy and learns that Kolur has a deadly past, she soon realizes that wishing for adventures is a dangerous game—because those wishes might come true.

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Unfortunately, Naji has enemies from the shadowy world known as the Mists, and Ananna must face the repercussions of the betrayal that set her off on her adventures. Together, Naji and Ananna must break the curse, escape their enemies, and come to terms with their growing romantic attraction.

Previously published as The Wizard’s Promise, this edition contains the all-new story The Nobleman’s Revenge. Publication Date: November 2017 Page Extent: 608 pp

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This is the return of Miriam Black that fans of New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig have been waiting for. “Wildly entertaining . . . falls somewhere between Flowers in the Attic and Joe Hill.”—Kirkus Reviews on Mockingbird “Thunderbird is Miriam Black at her best: a heartbreak and a cry for help, a punch to the solar plexus, and a brilliant fist-pumping triumph, all rendered in prose that’s so entertaining you’ll find yourself grinning as you read. Miriam is walking a long, winding road to fix what’s broken inside of her, and I’m cheering every tortured, blood-soaked step she takes toward peace.”—Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles Publication Date: February 2017 Page Extent: 336 pp

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Miriam heads to the southwest in search of another underground psychic, Mary Scissors, who may be able to help her understand her curse—the ability to see how people are going to die. But Mary Scissors works with a cult of domestic terrorists who have been recruiting people with special abilities like hers, and quickly Miriam’s hunt to escape her powers becomes more dangerous than she expected as the cult begins hunting her.

CHUCK WENDIG is the New York Times bestselling author of the Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy, as well as the Miriam Black thrillers. His most recent novels include Invasive, Zer0es, the Atlanta Burns books, and the Heartland YA series, alongside other works across comics, games, film, and more. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the cowriter of the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus, he is also known for his popular blog, terribleminds, and his books about writing. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.

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By Theodora Goss

The story of a remarkable group of women, culled from the pages of some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their own origins

With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde and soon gathers around her more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein. When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past soon arrive as well, and it is up to the five of them to stop the malicious machinations of the Société des Alchimistes. It is time for the monsters to triumph over the monstrous.

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Publication Date: June 2017 Page Extent: 352 pp

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Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, quickly finds herself drawn into the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. A clue leads her to believe that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there still is a reward for information leading to his capture—a reward which would solve all of her immediate financial woes. Her hunt leads her not to Edward Hyde but to Diana, his daughter, a near feral child left to be raised by nuns.

THEODORA GOSS is a Hungarian American writer of fantasy short stories. Her stories have been nominated for major awards, including the 2007 Nebula Award for “Pip and the Fairies” and the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for “The Wings of Meister Wilhelm.” She won the 2004 Rhysling Award for Best Long Poem for “Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks.” 11

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Two engineers go head to head with a murderous Artificial Intelligence in a space opera that will appeal to fans of Firefly and Ancillary Justice. Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but in a solar system wracked by economic collapse after an interplanetary war, an engineering degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Desperate for gainful employment, they hijack a colony ship, planning to join a pirate crew at Barbary Station, an abandoned ship-breaking station in deep space. But when they arrive at Barbary Station, nothing is as they expected. The pirates aren’t living in luxury—they’re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station’s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station’s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents. And it shoots down any ship that tries to leave, so there’s no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the security system suffered explosive decapitation, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds. There’s a glorious future in piracy . . . if they can survive long enough. Publication Date: July 2017 Page Extent: 384 pp

R. E. STEARNS wrote her first story on an Apple IIe computer and still kind of misses green text on a black screen. She went on to annoy all her teachers by reading books while they lectured. Eventually she read and wrote enough to earn a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Central Florida. She is hoping for an honorary doctorate. When not writing or working, R. E. Stearns reads, plays PC games, and references Internet memes in meatspace. She lives near Orlando, Florida, with her husband/computer engineer and a cat.

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By Kay Kenyon

A young woman must go undercover to try to discover a secret Nazi plot, in a book that feels like a classic British espionage story with a heaping spoonful of superpowers and a fantastic protagonist. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy meets X-Men. In 1936, paranormal abilities of the bloom have broken through in the world as a slow, subconscious tide, brought to the surface by the suffering of the Great War.

Kim infiltrates the upper-crust circles of some of the country’s fascist sympathizers. There she encounters dangerous opponents, including a charismatic Nazi officer in the intelligence arm of the SS, Erich von Ritter. Playing a perilous game of cat and mouse with him, she uncovers a Nazi plan that she is convinced involves an invasion of England. Eluding von Ritter, traitorous English aristocrats, and at times her fascist-leaning father, Kim hunts a deeply undercover individual with a mysterious power over cold and ice. No one believes an invasion of the island nation is possible, not Whitehall, not even England’s Secret Intelligence Service. Unfortunately, they are wrong, and only one woman, without connections or training, wielding her Talent of the spill and her gift for espionage, can stop it. Publication Date: July 2017 Page Extent: 400 pp

KAY KENYON is the author of twelve science fiction and fantasy novels and numerous short stories. Her work has been short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Endeavour Award, and twice for the American Library Association Reading List awards. Her series The Entire and the Rose was hailed by The Washington Post as “A splendid fantasy quest as compelling as anything by Stephen R. Donaldson, Philip José Farmer or yes, J. R. R. Tolkien.” Her novels include Bright of the Sky, A World Too Near, City Without End, Prince of Storms, Maximum Ice (a 2002 Philip K. Dick Award nominee), and The Braided World. Bright of the Sky was among Publishers Weekly’s top 150 books of 2007. She is a founding member of the Write on the River conference in Wenatchee, Washington, where she lives with her husband.

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While Germany has worked for over a decade to weaponize these abilities, in England research lags behind. It’s now underway at an ultrasecret site, Monkton Hall. Among the test subjects is Kim Tavistock, a woman with the Talent of the spill—drawing out truths that people most wish to hide. When she wins the confidence of caseworker Owen Cherwell, he recruits her into an effort to expose the head of Monkton Hall as a German spy.

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THE MALORUM GATES #1: COLD IRON #2: BLACKTHORNE By Stina Leicht

Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and into military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut from a two-time Campbell Award finalist. NPR Books raved: “This is a thoroughly enjoyable book, with solid, believable characters, absorbing action, and sprawling scope. It’s what I think of as ’90s Epic Fantasy (mostly because of how many books like this I was devouring at the time)—fantasy that’s figuring out its relationship to its own history and lineage in order to unabashedly revel in it. It reminded me, pleasurably, of Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice series; I was invested in Nels, Suvi, and Ilta’s lives and adventures, their own perceptions of their actions and selves. I sympathized with their self-doubt and cheered on their courage.” Prince Nels is the scholarly runt of the ancient Kainen royal family of Eledore, disregarded as flawed by the king and many others. Only Suvi, his fraternal twin sister, supports him. When Nels is ambushed by an Acrasian scouting party, he does the forbidden for a member of the ruling family: he picks up a fallen sword and defends himself. Disowned and dismissed to the military, Nels establishes himself as a leader as Eledore begins to shatter under the attack of the Acrasians, whom the Kainen had previously dismissed as barbarians. But Nels knows differently, and with the aid of Suvi, who has allied with pirates, he mounts a military offensive with sword, cannon, and what little magic is left in the world. Publication Date: #1: July 2015; #2: June 2017 Page Extent: #1: 688 pp; #2: 576 pp

STINA LEICHT is a science fiction/fantasy writer living in central Texas. Her second novel, And Blue Skies from Pain, was on the Locus Recommended Reading list for 2012. She was a Campbell Award finalist in 2013 and in 2012. In 2012 she was also short-listed for the Crawford Award.

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