Mishell Baker

Mishell Baker is an American writer who writes fantasy and urban fantasy novels and short stories. While she is quite new in the novel writing scene, she has had much success writing short stories. After graduating from the Clarion Fantasy & Science Fiction Writers Workshop, she went on to write fiction that has featured on Electric Velocipide, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, and Redstone Science Fiction. As a novelist, she is best known for the The Arcadia Project series of novels. Simon & Schuster published Borderline, the first novel in the series in 2016, to critical acclaim and much fan popularity. Mishell Baker’s chief protagonist is Millicent “Millie” Roper suicide survivor and snarky double amputee that works with a motley crew of society’s rejects to protect the world from malevolent supernatural beings. Baker has won several awards and accolades over the years. She won the Nebula Award in 2016, and best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2016 by Barnes and Noble. While she does not have much in terms of hobbies, Baker loves going on wild research adventures, convention hopping, and writing and receiving the old-fashioned handwritten letters. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.