My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in N…

- Maria Dahvana Headley

Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a hom…

- Maria Dahvana Headley

I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing gam…

- Maria Dahvana Headley

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

- Maria Dahvana Headley

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

- Maria Dahvana Headley

A hilarious, honest, heartfelt look at what it means to take on a family that isn't your own...Izzy Rose rocks it.

- Maria Dahvana Headley

Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by…

- Maria Dahvana Headley

The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.

- Maria Dahvana Headley

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

- Maria Dahvana Headley