Ysabeau S. Wilce
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Ysabeau S. Wilce is an award winning American
author of young adult fantasy novels. Her novels feature the rebellious young heroine Flora Fyrdraaca and her adventures in the fictional land of Califa.
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author of young adult fantasy novels. Her novels feature the rebellious young heroine Flora Fyrdraaca and her adventures in the fictional land of Califa.
Life
Ysabeau S. Wilce was born in Northern California. As an adult she has traveled the world and lived in San Francisco, Anchorage, Miami, Mexico City, Madrid, Los Angeles, Maryland, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. She has a graduate degree in military history and lives in San Francisco.Novels
- Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog (2007)
- Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) (2008)
- Flora's Fury (forthcoming)
Short Stories
- “Metal More Attractive” (2004) appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
- “The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror” (2004) appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
- “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire” (2006) appears in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 2006, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant.
- “Quartermaster Returns” (2007) appears in Eclipse, edited by Jonathan Strahan
Awards
- Winner of the 2008 Andre Norton AwardAndre Norton AwardThe Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, named to honor prolific science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton , is a yearly juried award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to the author of an outstanding young adult science fiction or...
for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy for Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) - Two-time Tiptree Award Honor List Member
- A New York Times Editor's Choice
- A VOYA Best Book of 2006
- A Kirkus Best Book of 2007