Sarah Elizabeth Monette (born November 25, 1974) is an American

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and

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author, writing mostly in the genres of

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and horror. Under the name Katherine Addison, she published the fantasy novel '' The Goblin Emperor'', which received the

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and was nominated for the Nebula,

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and

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Early life

Monette was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on November 25, 1974. She began writing at the age of 12. Monette studied Classics, English, and French at Case Western Reserve University and graduated summa cum laude in 1996. She received her master's degree in 1997 and her Ph.D. in 2004, both in English literature at the

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. She specialized in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.

Career

Monette won the

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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 ''

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'' 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 ''

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'', ''Alchemy'', and ''Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet'', among other venues, and have received four Honorable Mentions from ''

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'', edited by

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, Gavin Grant, and

Kelly Link Kelly Link (born July 19, 1969) 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 sci ...

. 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

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, "The Ile of Dogges", appeared in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'', edited by

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, in 2007. She also has been published in the award-winning ''

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. Her 2014 novel '' The Goblin Emperor'' was published under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. The novel received the

and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Bibliography

Novels

Doctrine of Labyrinths series

* * * *

Iskryne series

* * *

Standalone novels

Published as Katherine Addison * *

Cemeteries of Amalo series

Published as Katherine Addison * *

Short fiction

Kyle Murchison Booth

*"The Wall of Clouds" ('' Alchemy Magazine'' 1, December 2003) *"The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" ('' Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries'' 7, May 2004) *"The Venebretti Necklace" ('' Alchemy Magazine'' 2, September 2004) *"Bringing Helena Back" ('' All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'' 35, February 2004) *"The Green Glass Paperweight" ('' Tales of the Unanticipated'' 25, August 2004) *"Wait for Me" ('' Naked Snake Online'', September 2004) *"Elegy for a Demon Lover" ('' Tales of the Unanticipated'' 26, October 2005) *"Drowning Palmer" ('' All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'' 41, February 2006) *"The Bone Key" ('' SAY... What's the Combination?'', May 2007) *"Listening to Bone" ('' The Bone Key'',

Prime Books Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, '' Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' ...

, 2007) *"The World Without Sleep" (''Postscripts'', Spring 2008)
"The Yellow Dressing Gown"
( ''Weird Tales'', March 2008)
"The Replacement"
(''The Willows'', September 2008)
White Charles
(''

Clarkesworld Magazine ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...

'', September 2009) *"Unnatural Creatures" (''Unnatural Creatures'', self-published, 2011)
"To Die for Moonlight"
( ''Apex Magazine'', July 2013)
"The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth"
( ''Uncanny Magazine'', March 2018)
"The Haunting of Dr. Claudius Winterson"
(''

Uncanny Magazine ''Uncanny Magazine'' is an American science fiction and fantasy online magazine, edited and published by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, based in Urbana, Illinois. Its mascot is a space unicorn. The editors-in-chief, who originally ...

'', January 2022)

Boojum

*"Boojum" (with

) ('' Fast Ships, Black Sails'', eds.

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and

Ann VanderMeer Ann VanderMeer (née Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor, and the second female editor of the horror magazine '' Weird Tales''. She is the founder of Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantas ...

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, 2008) *"Mongoose" (with

) (2009) *"The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" (with

) (2012)

Other short fiction

*"Three Letters from the Queen of Elflands" (''Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet'' #11, November 2002)
Queen of Swords
('' Alienskin Magazine'' #2.4, November 2003) *"Sidhe Tigers" (''Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet'' #13, November 2003)
Straw
(''

'' #28, June 2004) *"The Half-Sister" (''

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet ''Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet'' (''LCRW'') 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 speculativ ...

'' #15, January 2005) *"The Séance at Chisholm End" ('' Alchemy Magazine'' #3, January 2006) *"A Gift of Wings" '' The Queen in Winter'' Ace Books, 2006 *"The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear) (''

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'' #7, May 2006)
A Night in Electric Squidland
( Lone Star Stories #15, June 2006) *"Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" ('' Tales of the Unanticipated'' #27, July 2006) *"National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West" (''Fictitious Force'' #2, July 2006) *"
Draco campestris
'" (''

'', August 7, 2006)
Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day
(''

Ideomancer ''Ideomancer'' was a Canadian quarterly online speculative fiction magazine whose contents included science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, horror, flash fiction and speculative poetry, along with reviews and interviews. The first issue debuted ...

'' 5.3, September 2006)
A Light in Troy
(''

'' #1, October 2006) *"Amante Dorée" ('' Paradox Magazine'' #10, Winter 2006/07) *"The Watcher in the Corners" (author's blog, ''Notes from the Labyrinth'', April 23, 2007) *"Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home" ('' Fantasy Magazine'', July 2007)
Under the Beansidhe's Pillow
('' Lone Star Stories'' #22, August 1, 2007) *"Festival Lives, View 3: All God's Chillun Got Wings" (2008) *"Darkness, as a Bride" (''Cemetery Dance'' #58, February 2008) *"Fiddleback Ferns" (''Flytrap'' #9, June 2008) *"Night Train: Heading West" (poem) (''The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection'', August 2008) *"Last Drink Bird Head" (2009) *"After the Dragon" ('' Fantasy Magazine'', January 2010) *"Ashes, Ashes" ('' All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'', 2011) *"No Man's Land" ('' Fictitious Force'', 2011) *"The Devil in Gaylord's Creek" (2011) *"Why Do You Linger?" (2011) *"Absent from Felicity" (''

Somewhere Beneath Those Waves ''Somewhere Beneath Those Waves'' is a collection of speculative fiction short stories by American writer Sarah Monette. It was first published in trade paperback by Prime Books in November 2011. Summary The book collects twenty-four novelettes ...

'', 2011) *"Impostors" (''

'', 2011) *"Blue Lace Agate" (2012) *"Coyote Gets His Own Back" (2012) *"The Half-Life of Angels" (2015) *"Learning to See Dragons" (2017) *"National Geographic on Assignment: The Unicorn Enclosure" (2017) *"The Oracle of Abbey Road (Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night)" (2018)

Collections

*'' The Bone Key'' (

, 2007) *''

'' (

, 2011)

References

External links

*
The Sarah Monette Papers at Northern Illinois University

* *
Katherine Addison
at LC Authorities, with 1 record {{DEFAULTSORT:Monette, Sarah Living people 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American horror writers American women short story writers American women novelists People from Oak Ridge, Tennessee Women science fiction and fantasy writers Women horror writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American short story writers Weird fiction writers Case Western Reserve University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni 1974 births