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Katrina Spillman
Katrina Spillman grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is a historian and documentarian who graduated Cum Laude from Portland State University’s History Department, and creator of the award winning documentary “Borders and Frontiers of Gender: Rethinking Cabeza de Vaca's Indigenous Encounters 1527-1536.”
The child of a scientist and a tarot card reader, she always has her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds.
Cover art by Lily Spillman
Promise The Sky
Aboard New Coventry, a generation ship heading for the promise of a new planet, Gaia 2, seventeen-year-old Dyvah Bellingtier is beginning the most important test of her final year of school, and maybe her life. The Repros - short for the Reproduction Examination - is a multi-part test that determines whether or not a young person will be permitted to marry and start a family. Dyvah knows it’s what her parents want - what everybody seems to want - but she isn’t entirely sure it’s what she wants.
What Dyvah wants - or rather, who she wants - is Rey, a strong, confident girl from the ‘Shallows,’ but it’s complicated by the fact that as twelfth years, both Dyvah and Rey are taking the Repros. Should they succeed, a further relationship with each other will become impossible.
To make things more confusing, Dyvah is coming to realize that not everything on New Coventry is as fair as it seems. Some people - those living in the exclusive ‘Heights’ - are thriving, while those living in the ‘Shallows’ face a much grimmer reality. Dyvah will need the help of friends from every social strata, including the ship’s AI, if she hopes to change anything for the next generation.
Trade Paperback and eBook coming out April 2027 from Ooligan Press
