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Bio

Shelly has published over 20 short stories in venues such as NatureCosmos Online, Crossed Genres, Daily Science Fiction, and more. Her first novel of YA Fantasy, The Royal Hunter, is forthcoming from Penguin Books in Fall 2011.

 

Born in November 1992 in Omaha, NE, she spent the first two years of her life with Mandarin as her only language. Though it wasn’t a huge struggle to learn English, to this day she claims to have a Chinese accent because she think it makes her seem more interesting.

 

She is obsessed with good quotes. But aside from that, she enjoys sleeping, playing board games, traveling, golfing, watching thunderstorms in the rain, building forts, and roasting marshmallows--all with the people whom she loves... except the sleeping part.

Bibliography

Long Works

The Royal Hunter

- Philomel Books (forthcoming)

 

Short Works

 

“To Be the Queen”

- Polluto: The Anti-Pop Culture Journal (forthcoming)

 

“Every Girl Dreams of Falling in Love”

- Nature (forthcoming)

 

“A Good Time”

Nature (forthcoming)

 

“The Purple Pendant”

Port Iris Magazine (February 2011)

 

“To the Stars”, co-written with Ken Liu

-Nature (February 3, 2011)”

 

“Jade Dragon”

-Daily Science Fiction (January 31, 2011)

 

“Saving Face,” co-written with Ken Liu

Crossed Genres (January 2011)

 

“Backbone”

2013: The Aftermath Anthology, Pill Hill Press (December 2010)

 

“Echo of the Invisible World”

-Undiscovered: tales of exploration, adventure & excitement, Hall Brothers Entertainment (January 2011)

Reprint in Phantasmacore (December 2010)

 

“Madelaine’s Echo”

Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine (November 2010)

 

“The Tsarevich”

The Fringe Magazine (November 2010)

 

“The Betrayal”

-The Gloaming Magazine (October 2010) 

Reprint in Villainy, Hall Brothers Entertainment (forthcoming)

 

“The Parachute”

-Cosmos Online (July 2010)

-Reprint in Hebrew in Bli-Panika (July 18, 2010)

-Reprint in Lightning Flash Magazine (November 2010)

-Reprint in German inNOVA (forthcoming)

-Reprint in ICARUS (forthcoming)

 

“The End of God”

-Nature (July 1, 2010) 

 

“The Architect of Apathy”

-Mallorn 49 (May 2010)

-Reprint in Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine (July 2010) 

-Reprint in Sci-Fi Short Story Magazine (November 2010)

-Reprint in Abandoned Towers Magazine (forthcoming)

-Reprint in Nil Desperandum (forthcoming)

-Reprint in Aoife’s Kiss (forthcoming)

 

“Intelligent Truth”

-The Dragon and the StarsDAW (May 2010) 

-Reprint in Sniplits

 

“The Balance Scale”

-Nature (April 1, 2010) 

 

“The Imitation Game”

-Nature (November 26, 2009)

-Reprint in Chinese in New Fantasy Realm (January 2010)

-Reprint in The Way of the Buffalo (December 2010)

 

“Portal #7”

-Kalkion (October 21, 2009)

 

“Spaghetti”

-Robot in Italian (October 2009)

-Reprint in Golden Visions Magazine (January 2011)

 

“Royal Blood”

-Mallorn 48 (August 2009)

 

“Soul Mate”

-Cosmos Online (July 2009)

-Reprint in Chinese in New Fantasy Realm (January 2010)

-Reprint in Chinese in Science Fiction World (February 2010) 

-Reprint in Allegory (January 2011)

 

“Outsourced”

-Nature (April 23, 2009)

-Reprint in Chinese in New Fantasy Realm (January 2010)

-Reprint in Wily Writers (May 2010) 

 

“Replacement”

-Nature (January 22, 2009)

-Reprint in Chinese in New Fantasy Realm (January 2010)