Sarah Monette
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Sarah Monette is an American novel
ist and short story
author
writing mostly in the genres of fantasy
and horror
. She was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
and she began writing at the age of 12. In 2004 she earned a PhD in English literature, specializing in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy. She double-majored in Classics and Literature (a cross-departmental program between French, English, and Comparative Literature) in college. She is currently teaching a course on seventeenth century literature and lives in Wisconsin
.
She won the Spectrum award
in 2003 for her short story "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland." Her first novel, Mélusine
was published by Ace Books
in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly
and Booklist and a place in Locuss Recommended Reading list for 2005. The sequel, The Virtu
, followed in July 2006, also earning starred reviews and making Locus' s Recommended Reading lists for 2006. Her short stories have been published in Strange Horizons
, Alchemy, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other venues, and have received four Honorable Mentions from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow
, Gavin Grant
, and Kelly Link
. Her poem "Night Train: Heading West" appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX, and a story she co-wrote with 2005 Campbell winner Elizabeth Bear
, "The Ile of Dogges," appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois
, in 2007. She also has been published in award-winning Postscripts
.
In 2007, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University
.
In November 2009 it was announced on her weblog that her forthcoming work, The Goblin Emperor, would be released under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. http://truepenny.livejournal.com/693134.html
Others
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist and short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
author
Author
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writing mostly in the genres of fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
and horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
. She was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 at the 2000 census...
and she began writing at the age of 12. In 2004 she earned a PhD in English literature, specializing in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy. She double-majored in Classics and Literature (a cross-departmental program between French, English, and Comparative Literature) in college. She is currently teaching a course on seventeenth century literature and lives in Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
.
She won the Spectrum award
Gaylactic Spectrum Awards
The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards are given to works of science fiction, fantasy and horror that explore LGBT topics in a positive way. Established in 1998, the awards were initially presented by the Gaylactic Network, with awards first awarded in 1999. In 2002 the awards were given their own...
in 2003 for her short story "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland." Her first novel, Mélusine
Mélusine (novel)
Mélusine is a fantasy novel by Sarah Monette. It is the first book of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, which includes The Virtu and The Mirador...
was published by Ace Books
Ace Books
Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...
and Booklist and a place in Locuss Recommended Reading list for 2005. The sequel, The Virtu
The Virtu (novel)
The Virtu is a fantasy novel by Sarah Monette. It is the second book of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, which includes Mélusine, The Mirador, and Corambis.-Plot summary:...
, followed in July 2006, also earning starred reviews and making Locus
Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
, Alchemy, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other venues, and have received four Honorable Mentions from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...
, Gavin Grant
Gavin Grant
Gavin J. Grant is a science fiction editor and writer. He runs Small Beer Press along with his wife Kelly Link. In addition, he has been the editor of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet since 1996 and, from 2003 to 2008, was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series along with...
, and Kelly Link
Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism...
. Her poem "Night Train: Heading West" appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX, and a story she co-wrote with 2005 Campbell winner Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear
Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W...
, "The Ile of Dogges," appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois
Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
, in 2007. She also has been published in award-winning Postscripts
Postscripts
Postscripts is a quarterly Britishmagazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror and crime fiction, first published in June 2004.Each issue is published in two editions: a regular newsstand-type edition and a signed, numbered, 150-copy hardcover edition. Beginning with Postscripts #14, it is a...
.
In 2007, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University is a state university and research institution located in DeKalb, Illinois, with satellite centers in Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P...
.
In November 2009 it was announced on her weblog that her forthcoming work, The Goblin Emperor, would be released under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. http://truepenny.livejournal.com/693134.html
Novels
The Doctrine of LabyrinthsDoctrine of Labyrinths
The Doctrine of Labyrinths is a series of fantasy novels by Sarah Monette. Set in the fantasy world of Meduse, it tells the story of the adventures of Felix Harrowgate, a wizard, and his half-brother Mildmay the Fox, a former assassin...
- MélusineMélusine (novel)Mélusine is a fantasy novel by Sarah Monette. It is the first book of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, which includes The Virtu and The Mirador...
(Ace Books, 2005) - The VirtuThe Virtu (novel)The Virtu is a fantasy novel by Sarah Monette. It is the second book of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, which includes Mélusine, The Mirador, and Corambis.-Plot summary:...
(Ace Books, 2006) - The MiradorThe Mirador (novel)The Mirador is a fantasy novel by Sarah Monette. It is the third book of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, which includes Mélusine, The Virtu, and Corambis.-External links:*...
(Ace Books, 2007) - Corambis (Ace Books, 2009)
Others
- A Companion to Wolves [with Elizabeth Bear] (Tor Books, October, 2007)
- The Tempering of Men [with Elizabeth Bear] (Tor Books, August, 2011)
Short stories
- "Amante Dorée", Paradox Magazine 10 (Winter 2006)
- "Ashes, Ashes" All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society
- "The Bone Key" SAY... What's the Combination? (May 2007)
- "Boojum" [with Elizabeth Bear]. Fast Ships, Black Sails, eds. JeffJeff VanderMeerJeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher.He is best known for his contributions to the New Weird and his stories about the city of Ambergris, in books like City of Saints and Madmen.-Biography:...
and Ann VanderMeerAnn VanderMeerAnn VanderMeer is an American publisher and editor, and the second female editor of the venerable horror magazine Weird Tales. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press.Her work as Fiction Editor of Weird Tales won a Hugo Award...
, Night Shade BooksNight Shade BooksNight Shade Books is an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It was started in 1997 by Jason Williams, with Jeremy Lassen coming on board as a partner shortly after the company's founding... - "Bringing Helena Back" All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 35 (February 2004)
- "Draco campestris" Strange HorizonsStrange HorizonsStrange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
(August 2006) - "Drowning Palmer" All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 41 (February 2006)
- "Elegy for a Demon Lover" Tales of the UnanticipatedTales of the UnanticipatedTales of the Unanticipated, known as TOTU, is a semiprozine that was founded under the auspices of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society , and has since become independent...
26 (October 2005) - "A Gift of Wings" The Queen in WinterThe Queen in WinterThe Queen in Winter is a collection of four fantasy stories by four different authors.-Lynn Kurland:Lynn Kurland was born in Hawaii and has always loved to write. She writes in the genres of fantasy, historical fiction, time travel and romance. She is a best-selling author. In college she trained...
Ace BooksAce BooksAce Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
, 2006 - "The Green Glass Paperweight" Tales of the UnanticipatedTales of the UnanticipatedTales of the Unanticipated, known as TOTU, is a semiprozine that was founded under the auspices of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society , and has since become independent...
25 (August 2004) - "The Half-Sister" Lady Churchill's Rosebud WristletLady Churchill's Rosebud WristletLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly small press zine published by Small Beer Press, edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link. It contains an eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with an emphasis on speculative fiction, fantasy or slipstream. Link, Karen Joy Fowler, and...
15 (January 2005) - "The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear). AeonAeonThe word aeon, also spelled eon or æon , originally means "life", and/or "being", though it then tended to mean "age", "forever" or "for eternity". It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek word , from the archaic . In Homer it typically refers to life or lifespan...
7 (May 2006) - "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7 (May 2004)
- "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" Tales of the UnanticipatedTales of the UnanticipatedTales of the Unanticipated, known as TOTU, is a semiprozine that was founded under the auspices of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society , and has since become independent...
27 (2006) - "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day" IdeomancerIdeomancerIdeomancer is a Canadian online speculative fiction magazine whose contents include science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, horror, flash fiction and speculative poetry, along with reviews and interviews. The first issue debuted in 1999, and in 2002 the magazine was "rebooted" with new numbering...
5.3 (September 2006) - "A Light in Troy" Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
1 (October 2006) - "Listening to Bone" The Bone Key, Prime BooksPrime BooksEdited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
, 2007 - "Mongoose" (with Elizabeth BearElizabeth BearSarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W...
), 2009 - "National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West." Fictitious Force 2 (Spring 2006)
- "A Night in Electric Squidland" Lone Star Stories 15 (June 2006)
- "No Man's Land" Fictitious ForceFictitious forceA fictitious force, also called a pseudo force, d'Alembert force or inertial force, is an apparent force that acts on all masses in a non-inertial frame of reference, such as a rotating reference frame....
- "Queen of Swords" Alienskin Magazine (November 2003)
- "The Replacement" The Willows (October 2008)
- "The Séance at Chisholm End" Alchemy Magazine 3 (May 2006)
- "Sidhe Tigers" Lady Churchill's Rosebud WristletLady Churchill's Rosebud WristletLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly small press zine published by Small Beer Press, edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link. It contains an eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with an emphasis on speculative fiction, fantasy or slipstream. Link, Karen Joy Fowler, and...
13 (November 2003) - "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home" Fantasy MagazineFantasy MagazineFantasy Magazine is a U.S.-based online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was launched as a print edition at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. It continued in this format for six more issues, but in mid-October 2007, it moved online, with daily content, and spun off...
(2007) - "Straw" Strange HorizonsStrange HorizonsStrange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
(June 2004) - "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland" Lady Churchill's Rosebud WristletLady Churchill's Rosebud WristletLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly small press zine published by Small Beer Press, edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link. It contains an eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with an emphasis on speculative fiction, fantasy or slipstream. Link, Karen Joy Fowler, and...
11 (November 2002) - "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow" Lone Star Stories 22 (August 2007)
- "The Venebretti Necklace" Alchemy Magazine 2 (September 2004)
- "Wait for Me" Naked Snake Online (September 2004)
- "The Wall of Clouds" Alchemy Magazine 1 (December 2003)
- "White Charles" Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
(September 2009)