“I’m deeply appreciative of the response Elatsoe has received,” she says. Her supernatural mystery starring an asexual Lipan Apache teenager, Elatsoe (Levine Querido), received five starred reviews, was an Indie YA Bestseller, and was named one of PW’s Best Books of 2020. Now in her early 30s, with a much-lauded YA debut under her belt, Little Badger clearly didn’t need the creative writing certificate the Princeton program would have provided. “I thought, okay, I’ll just do the writing on my own, then,” she recalls. She never doubted that she was a writer, so when she was rejected (twice) by Princeton University’s creative writing program, she decided to pursue a newly discovered interest in oceanography instead, ultimately earning a PhD in the subject. Undeterred by the publisher’s rejection, she kept writing, producing a 400-page fantasy at the age of 12. Darcie Little Badger wrote her first book-a 40-page mystery-when she was in first grade, and even submitted it to a publisher, with help from her father, then a graduate student of English literature.
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