"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" is a fantasy novella by American writer Rachel Swirsky.

After being fatally injured, she is persuaded to allow her spirit to be bound, so that she can be summoned and thus continue to advise her queen.

She grows into a legendary figure, part of a group of similarly bound souls called Insomniacs.

"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella,[1] and was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novella[2] and the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella[3] It was included on Locus's 2010 "Recommended Reading" list,[4] and on the "honorable mentions" list in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection.

[5] The Washington City Paper compared it to the work of Vonda N. McIntyre and Suzy McKee Charnas.,[6] while Tor.com called it "gripping", with a "scope (that) is astounding" and "prose (that) is phenomenal".