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Darcie Little Badger

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Hi! I’m the bestselling author of Elatsoe & A Snake Falls to Earth & Sheine Lende. I <3 lifting heavy weights, playing video games, & writing stories. Sry I don’t check DMs. She/her. Lipan Apache.

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Aug 5

My article with The Texas Observer is now online! The title means “return to the land of many houses,” which is our (Lipan Apache) word for home. In this article, I write about the rematriation of an elder (my relative) who lived in KÍŁÁÁHÍÍ about 750 years ago. www.texasobserver.org/lipan-apache...

Screenshot of article lede and a photo of Darcie’s back as she looks over the traditional burial ground in Presidio Texas. Lede says “An Elder is restored to the Lipan Apache people more than 750 years after her death”.

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1h

Currently working with a traditional tattoo artist to design a sacred pattern for my left arm.

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 9h

Now is a great day to preorder CHILDREN OF OWL! Can Maisie change fate? bookshop.org/p/books/chil...

Children of Owl

Check out Children of Owl - After Lipan Apache teenager Maisie sees the son of Owl, she knows it portends evil for one of her beloved cousins and that she must do anything to stop it happening. by Dar...

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 10h

Darcie Tawóctcete Altsese shezhii!

Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 12h

From Darcie @littlebadger.bsky.social in 2024: We were often one disaster or unpaid bill away from displacement. We just had to struggle. We still do. In the eyes of the government, we are breathing ghosts.

Return to Kíłááhíí: An Elder Is Restored to the Lipan Apache People—750 Years Later

"I imagine this Elder’s life alongside the arroyo, where water flows in the desert and prickly pears grow in fountains of green paddles and red fruit."

www.texasobserver.org

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WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social · 11d

Introducing our first Guest of Honor: Award winner Darcie Little Badger! Are you excited for WisCon Online yet? Because we are. We hope to see you there!
#WisCon2026 #Wiscon #DarcieLittleBadger #WisCONline2026

Purple background decorated with four glitter stripes, and picturing three books by Darcie Little Badger: A Snake Falls to Earth; Elatsoe; Sheine Lende. Text reads: "Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for best first novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her 2nd novel, a Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, and Ignyte Award, and a Newberry Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Her 3rd book, Sheine Lende, is a prequel to Elatsoe and was a USA Today bestseller and Lodestar award winner. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran."

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1d

The highlight of my week - meeting Trina (student writer) and Carrie (librarian) at the 4th Annual Sturgeon Symposium!

Trina and Darcie pose for a photo. Darcie holds a pug plush

Carrie and Darcie pose together. They flex their arms

Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you <3

Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1d

The events have been wonderful, and I want to enjoy Minnesota to its fullest. I’ll throw myself into work - that always helps me deal with big feelings loool xOx

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1d

I‘m traveling a lot this week. First in Kansas (the Gunn center was awesome!!) Then in Utah for the Wasatch book fest. Tomorrow to Minnesota. Something happened yesterday at dinner that made me really angry, and I’m trying to be chill and stuff, but it’s difficult.

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1d

I feel more love for self because of love for them, if that makes sense?

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 1d

My family has been doing deep ancestry research (particularly on Grandpa’s side) to compile documentation for Important Things. There’s a lot of difficult history (it’s how I learned some of my ancestors were enslaved) but also comfort in understanding where I come from. Their stories flow into mine

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/