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Leah Bobet

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in Toronto, Canada

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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 — 2,878 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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 — 1,358 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 — 920 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
	Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful by Paula Guran (Editor), Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tanith Lee (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 343 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
	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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“Biologists say it will take at least a generation for the river to recover (Klamath River hymn)” in Reckoning 9: creative writing on environmental justice, January 2025.

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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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“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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