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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Educa
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Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , the middle-grade novels Star Wars, Flight of the Falcon: Lando's Luck and Spark of the Resistance, a Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm Books) , and the fantasy young adult novels Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows (both Simon and Schuster) . Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in the anthologies A Phoenix First Must Burn (Viking BFYR) , Feral Youth (Simon and Schuster) , Black Enough (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , Three Sides of a Heart (HarperCollins) , and online at Vox.com. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Armstrong Atlantic State University (now Georgia Southern) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Her forthcoming book, Ophie's Ghosts, will be available May 2021.
