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Rebecca Roanhorse is a New York Times bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer. She has published multiple award-winning short stories and novels, including two novels in The Sixth World Series, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, Race to the Sun for the Rick Riordan imprint, and the epic fantasy trilogy Between Earth and Sky. She has also written for Marvel Comics and games (Echo, She-Hulk, Werewolf By Night, MoonKnight, and Chee’ilth) and for television, including FX’s A Murder at the End of the World, and the Marvel series Echo for Disney+. She has had her own work optioned by Amazon Studios, Netflix, and AMC Studios.
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She lives in Northern New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and pup. She drinks a lot of black coffee. Find more at https://rebeccaroanhorse.com/ and on Instagram at @RebeccaRoanhorse.
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Hi! I’m currently around 70% of the way through Fevered Star and the nonbinary representation in this book means so much to me. Thank you for writing us so well!!!!!
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Eagerly awaiting the sequel to Fevered Star!
Mirrored Heavens. Hopefully more news soon!
So looking forward to this. Your storytelling is masterful!
I can absolutely agree on that. Moved to th US five years ago from Germany and this series made read much more in English. Love the characters and the non-binary representation with my daughter being in her journey currently. I’m really excited that you’re planing to add another part to this series. Thank you so much Rebecca.
Hermann
I am reading Black Sun for a twitch streamed book club. Tonight we are discussing chapters 1-19. I love this book so far. It was so hard to stop after just the first half so as not to spoil anything for the discussion group. I just wanted to say thank you for this captivating story. I can’t wait for club to be over tonight so I can jump right in and finish it!
So glad you liked it!
Just finished Black Sun on the advice of my librarian, whom I now know is a genius! Your book spoke to all of the ethnic stories that live inside me, and introduced me to new ones. Your writing effortlessly drew me deep into this book, and when I finished reading it, I felt a longing to return to this world. Thank you!
I was raised in North Texas, but am adopted, and am a reconnecting Indigenous person. Thank you for writing worlds that my younger self only dreamed of. Can’t wait to continue reading!
I heard you on the NPR interview. Black Sun just came out. I am not a person who reads fantasy. I bought the book to support you. Well, the book was a page turner and I could not put it down. I found myself reading it multiple times waiting for Fevered Star. I’ve read that one more than once and will probably read it again before book three so all details will be fresh prior to reading book three. I recently read Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts. Wonderful books.
I am waiting patiently and super excited to read book 3. Thank you for writing stories with Indigenous people, and with strong women. As an educator, I can say we need more books like your books. Thank you! ~Natalie
I am an 8th Grade ENL Teacher/ELA Co-Teacher from NY, and I want to tell you how much I appreciate your speculative short fiction story, “Takeback Tango” published in the anthology A Universe of Wishes.
It’s so necessary to teach students about the importance of returning cultural artifacts to their original places instead of those with power and privilege stealing and hoarding them just to put them on display and make money off of someone’s sacred objects.
Your story shares this message, and my students and I love the way this is conveyed in Takeback Tango. Thank you for giving a voice to indigenous cultures and native people across the globe. Your work is appreciated!
Thank you for reading and sharing with your class.
Love your Sixth World Series! I taught on the Navajo Reservation and my parents still are and it was fantastic to see the culture represented in literature. Will you be writing more installments of that series? Super excited to read where the story goes next.
Hi Rebecca, I live in Italy and finally “Sole Nero” has been realesed, two weeks ago.
I am finishing it tomorrow: I just want to thank you for the impressive feelings you gifted me.
I’m hardly loving this first book…Serapio one of the best character ever read.
Best wishes for a shining career.
Stefano
Grazie!
I started with 6th World Series and now reading Black Sun. Your art is a journey of possibility and indigenous worldview. Thank you for your gifts.
Hi!
I absolutely love The Sixth World Series and wanted to know if there would be more novels in the series. This was my first time reading anything about Navajo mythology and it awakened an interest in me. After viewing your work, I realized I’ve also read some of the comics you’ve written. I believe it’s fair to say, you’re now one of my favorite authors. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you! ❤ Glad you enjoyed them. Happy reading.
Will here be anymore middle grade books featuring Nizhoni and her friends? I loved that book and enjoyed learning about the Dine.
Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, there are no more Nizhoni books planned, but there is a short story featuring her and her friends in the Cursed Carnival anthology. https://www.readriordan.com/book/the-cursed-carnival-and-other-calamities/
I don’t want to finish Storm of Locusts because there isn’t another Sixth World book out yet to continue reading! Please oh please, continue this series indefinitely. Maggie is so good, so young and has so much time and room to explore many many books. Please. Thank you for all your work. I have sought a strong, dynamic, relevant sci-fi character for so long and here in the Sixth World you have created her.
Thank you so much. I’m so pleased you love Maggie as much as I do. Unfortunately, there are no more Sixth World books planned for now.
Can’t wait to read Mirrored Heavens. Awesome cover! Discover magazine did a story on Lake Titcaca island cultures in their November issue. I immediately thought of your work. Here’s the link: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/visit-the-artificial-islands-floating-on-lake-titicaca
Write on!
Lyri Ahnam
Thank you so much. Yes, the floating islands on Lake Titicaca are some of the inspiration for the floating islands of the Teek.
Hi Rebecca,
I first just want to thank you from the bottom of my fantasy-loving heart for all of the time, labor, thoughtfulness, intention, imagination, and emotion you poured into your creations. Black Sun and Fevered Star have become among my top favorite stories of all time, and I can only imagine the magnitude of heart and soul it takes to build worlds, personalities, and storylines the way you have. I just wanted to take the time to express to you how much your creations have impacted me and meant to me. Something I think about often as a lifelong lover of fantasy and story-telling is how disproportionate it feels to imagine what it takes to create, and how quickly, easily, and mindlessly one can consume that creation. Something else I think about is how hard it must be to put a price tag on that transaction as a creator, and to also live in the uncertainty of how your creation will be received or used, and how vulnerable it is to create for the public. Creators deserve to know how their creations are shaping and influencing their world — how the worlds they create and they worlds the occupy collide.
I couldn’t get enough of the Indigenous-inspired lore that took my imagination to places that made me feel Awe & Wonder, my favorite feeling, the feeling I chase the most in life. Your stories made me feel seen in the sense that it held a depth I feel always within me by weaving together the subconscious worlds of each character, the interpersonal relationships, the inter-community politics, all the way to the spiritual cosmos. As a descendant of native Ryukyu stewards of the land and sea, as a spirit-informed farmer and herbalist, food and land justice organizer, and as a queer mixed race woman, this story touched so many parts of me that a single story has never been able to all at once.
In my personal life, I have been deep in my healing journey of doing shadow work. I don’t enjoy talking about this too openly because I feel critical of the ways healing and even shadow work have become social media trends that lack the depth, vulnerability, and ugliness that comes with the messy business of healing. I imagine visceral physical wounds and the ugly stages healing takes on — and how there’s nothing cute about that. Our shadows are either denied, watered down, or feared by society at large from my perspective (of which there are detrimental consequences). Very few are also able to articulate the accountability of acknowledging that darkness within us beyond being victims, the seduction and even power that lives in the shadowiest corners of our hearts. And learning to see it as beautiful, worthy of taking up space, as fundamental to our nature—as necessary. Healing is not about banishing the shadow self, it’s about integrating with it.
Serapio is such a remarkable character. You’ve accomplished literary brilliance I think with how you’ve breathed life, love, beauty, and purpose into the shadows. I appreciate so deeply his complexity and the ways he is described to present visually. The entire Carrion Crow Clan is such a powerful identity. The arc of how Serapio and Naranpa intertwine in their purposes and their powers is one of the most honest tellings of how I understand the concept of balance. It felt like true Light-Shadow integration. At the end of Fevered Star, Naranpa’s understanding of Serapio’s role in bringing balance to a world tilted in the light for too long was so incredibly refreshing to me. The absence of the hero-villain binary in your stories in general is hugely refreshing to me!
There’s so much more I could talk about, like the matriarchal politics, the inclusion of disabled and trans characters, the class analysis of Naranpa’s background and Coyote’s Maw… spirituality being reduced to a science and symbolism only to find its way back to spirit again…but at the core, I think I just want to convey how much I felt your wisdom and gifts in reading the world and people you’ve created, and how expansive your creativity feels to me. It has made my inner world bigger and more colorful. Thank you for your creations, thank you for sharing them with us. We are blessed to participate in your brilliance.
Hi Sonia, Thank you so much for taking the time to write such kind words. I truly appreciate it and am warmed by how much you get what I am trying to do in my work. Readers like you make the work worth it. 🙂
Hi Rebecca. I’m wondering if you are on X as @RebeccaRoa4445? I received a follow and odd message from “you” and wanted to know if it was you or an impersonator. Thank you!
Definitely NOT me. My only social media is IG: @rebeccaroanhorse. I would report the imposter. Thx!
I just raced my way through both Black Sun and Fevered Star and I can’t wait for the conclusion of the trilogy! I am so grateful for the expansive world you created and called up out of the vibrant history of the so-called Americas. I didn’t even know how much I needed to read something like this. Thank you.
Thank you for reading!
I’m sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn’t find an answer anywhere. Will there also be a UK edition of Mirrored Heavens?
I believe so, published by Solaris.