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Leah Bobet

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I drink tea, wear feathers in my hair, and plant gardens in back alleys.

My first novel, Above, was shortlisted for both the Andre Norton Award and the Prix Aurora Award, and my second, An Inheritance of Ashes, was the winner of the Prix Aurora Award, the Copper Cylinder Award, and the Sunburst Award; an OLA Best Bets Selection; and shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Award and the Cybils.

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	Above 3.12 avg rating — 2,875 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Inheritance of Ashes 3.59 avg rating — 1,359 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laird Barron (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Brian Hodge (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.70 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author), Leah Bobet (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine, Issue 25, November/December 2018 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Isabel Yap (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Unit 4 by Emma Bull (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author), Leah Bobet (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Galaxia 42 - nr. 13 (#13) by Leah Bobet (Goodreads Author), Umiyuri Katsuyama, David D. Levine (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Poems about nope.

My copies of Qwerty Magazine’s No! issue showed up in the mail yesterday. It’s themed around refusal in a lovely nuanced way — all the places no to one thing is yes to another, and the tensions between them.

I have two poems in this: “the silent treatment” and sonnet “he says write about death a normal amount,” which is regrettably a little ripped from the headlines.

But I’ve also paged through th

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The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy

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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

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Scion of the Fox (The Realms of Ancient, #1)

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“I'd be your sky.”
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“Healing's not always natural, she says. Healing's not always the way a body wants to go. Sometimes the body wants to run. Sometimes it can't think of anything but what might stop the pain. And though stopping the pain's important if you want a body healing, it isn't the whole. Sometimes that just keeps you broke.”
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“Because even if we're strange and Cursed and Beasts, the people Above are monsters.”
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