About the Author

Mishell Baker is the author of the Nebula and World Fantasy Award Finalist Borderline, which was also a Tiptree Honor book, as well as the second and third books in The Arcadia Project, Phantom Pains and Impostor Syndrome. She is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, and her short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Redstone Science Fiction, and Electric Velocipede. She has a website at MishellBaker.com and frequently Tweets about writing, parenthood, mental health, and assorted geekery at @MishellBaker. When she's not attending conventions or going on wild research adventures, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

Reviews

* "Everything readers think they know about both worlds will be upended by this enthralling installment."-- "Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW"

"Borderline [is] a strange, fast-paced, and surprisingly dark tale about magic, madness and mystique...Despite the engaging plot, Millie's character, and the complexities in the characters around her made the book a real page-turner for me...Immensely riveting, with unexpected influxes of depth."-- "MuggleNet.com, on BORDERLINE"

"Baker's consistent, caring integration of the realities of disability into the narrative, makes Borderline one of the most purely respectful portrayals of people with disabilities that I've ever had the pleasure of reading, and that in turn makes it an excellent launch to a very promising urban fantasy series."-- "Publishers Weekly STAFF PICK, on BORDERLINE"

"Mishell Baker's new Arcadia Project series is off to a thrilling and glamorous start with Borderline...Baker has given her audience urban fantasy at its finest--visceral and real in its sense of space, and dancing on the uncanny edges of our vision...Borderline is dark and creeping and smart as a whip."-- "Tor.com, on BORDERLINE"

"Baker's prose is a liquid line with light in it, that you can't tell is gasoline until she touches it with a match.... Phantom Pains succeeds in being both seamlessly connected to Borderline and utterly its own ambitious project. I was constantly aware of being impressed with it while being absorbed by it - and I ended up loving it more than Borderline, which is saying something."-- "Lightspeed Magazine"

"Borderline is worldbuilding at its most original...I loved this book."--Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD UNTIL DARK, on BORDERLINE