Kelly Barnhill is the author of the adult novel When Women Were Dragons and several middle grade novels, including the New York Times bestselling novels The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the 2017 John Newbery Medal , and The Ogress and the Orphans. She is also the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, and has been a finalist for the SFWA Andre Norton Nebula Award and the PEN America Literary Award. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.

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Praise for The Crane Husband

"If I had to nominatea worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill.The Crane Husbandis abloody, subversive, and brilliantreimagining of a familiar fairy tale, rendered strange and haunting."--Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author ofBone Gap

"Few books have left me as haunted as Kelly Barnhill's mesmericThe Crane Husband."--Cassandra Khaw,USA Todaybestselling author

"The incomparable Barnhill delivers thissly, confrontational retelling with masterful ease and crystalline prose, revealing, feather by feather, the very real generational threat that has always burned at the core of this ancient story."--New York Timesbestselling author Catherynne M. Valente

"A fast-moving, lush story that refuses to end neatly, a story of flighty mothers and the daughters who die a little keeping their families alive. Fans of fairy-tale retellings will eat this one up."--Booklist, starred review

"[A] grim, grown-up fairytale . . . fans of dark, surreal fantasy will be enthralled."--Publishers Weekly

Beyond retelling a folktale, Barnhill (When Women Were Dragons) constructs nuanced characters with conflicting motivations and loyalties . . . [and] arrives at a thought-provoking conclusion."--Library Journal