| Mishell Baker | |
| Occupation: | Novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality: | American |
| Period: | 2009–present |
| Genre: | fantasy |
| Children: | 2 |
Mishell Baker (born 1976) is an American writer of fantasy. A 2009 graduate of the Clarion Workshop, her fantasy stories have been published in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Electric Velocipede.[1]
In 2016, Baker published Borderline, the first novel in the Arcadia Project urban fantasy series with Simon & Schuster's imprint Saga Press (edited by Navah Wolfe). It was a Publishers Weekly staff pick,[2] and Barnes & Noble chose it as one of the best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2016.[3] Borderline is notable for having a disabled protagonist with borderline personality disorder.[4]
The second and third books in the series, Phantom Pains and Impostor Syndrome, were released in 2017 and 2018 respectively.[5]
Mishell Baker lives in Los Angeles, California with her partner and two children.[1]
In November 2022, Baker was diagnosed with metastatic appendix cancer and placed on palliative chemotherapy.
The Arcadia Project
The trilogy taken as a whole was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award.[9]