Cherie Priest (born July 30, 1975) is an American

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ger living in

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Biography

Priest is a Florida native, born in

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in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy, a

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boarding school in

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in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as

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, and

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. She moved around regularly until college. In 1998 she graduated with a

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from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, and in 2001 she left the

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with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing. Priest lived in

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for twelve years and it is there she both set her Eden Moore series and wrote the first two books. In May 2012, she and her husband Aric Annear moved back to Tennessee from Seattle, Washington. In 2017, she returned to live in Seattle. Although Priest was baptized into the

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, she has no further contact with the church and claims no religious affiliation. In addition to her novels, Priest was a reviewer for the

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-winning website ''Chiaroscuro'' and currently is a staff member of

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. She is a regular attendee and panelist at

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and several other genre conventions around the country such as

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and

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. She is also known for giving talks and writing articles about the hobby of

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Awards

* In March 2006, she won the

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for Fiction for ''Four and Twenty Blackbirds'' (Tor Books, 2005), becoming the first ever winner in that category.Lulu Blooker Blog: And the Winners are
* Her 2006 short story "Wishbones" was part of the ''Aegri Somnia'' anthology by Apex Digest, which was nominated for a

. * Her 2009 novel ''Boneshaker'' won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award * The

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announced that ''Boneshaker'' made the final ballot for the 2009

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for Best Novel. * ''Boneshaker'' was a 2010

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nominee in the Best Novel category. * ''Boneshaker'' won the 2010

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in the Best Science Fiction Novel category.

Bibliography

Novels

Booking Agent Series

* ''Grave Reservations'', 2021,

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. . * ''Flight Risk'', 2022,

. .

The Borden Dispatches

* ''Maplecroft'', 2014,

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. . * ''Chapelwood'', 2015,

. .

Eden Moore series

* ''Four and Twenty Blackbirds'', **Original edition, 2003, Marietta Publishing. . **Re-released in a revised, much expanded, edition, 2005,

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. . ** Issued in the United Kingdom, February 2012,

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. * ''Wings to the Kingdom'', October 2006,

. . ** Issued in the United Kingdom, May 2012,

. * '' Not Flesh Nor Feathers'', 2007,

. . **

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described this book as "a bit talky" but also as Cherie Priest's "most assured outing yet."

Clockwork Century Universe

* ''Boneshaker'', October 2009,

. . * ''Clementine'', July 2010,

. . * ''Dreadnought'', September 2010,

. . * ''Ganymede'', September 2011,

. . * ''The Inexplicables'', November 2012, Tor Books. . * ''Fiddlehead'', November 2013, Tor Books. * ''Jacaranda'', January 2015, Subterranean Press.

Cheshire Red Reports series

* ''Bloodshot'', January 2011,

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. . ** Issued in the United Kingdom, July 2011,

. . * ''Hellbent'', September 6, 2011,

. . ** Issued in the United Kingdom, September 2011,

. . The Cheshire Red Reports concern a vampire thief called Raylene Pendle. Although she prefers to work alone, she acquires a group of misfits who join her in her adventures. These are two young children, a blind vampire and an ex-Navy Seal/Drag Queen. ''Bloodshot'' also features the world of

. The Cheshire Red reports were originally only commissioned as a two book series. There is the possibility of a third book in this series provisionally entitled ''Sawbones'' if sufficient interest is expressed.

Other novels

* ''Dreadful Skin'', March 2007,

. . * ''Fathom'', December 2008,

. . * ''Those Who Went Remain There Still'', December 2008,

. . * ''

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'', May 2015, Arthur A. Levine Books. . * ''The Family Plot'', September 2016,

. * ''Brimstone'', April 2017,

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. . * ''The Agony House'', September 2018, Arthur A. Levine Books/ Scholastic. . *''The Toll'', July 2019, Tor Books.

Short stories and other work

* 'The Heavy', a short story. Published in Apex Digest Issue #12, March 2008. * 'The Target Audience', a short story. Published in ''Noctem Aeternus'' January, 2008. * 'Following Piper', a short story. Published in

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issue #6. * 'Little Wards', a short story. Published i
The Edge of Propinquity
June 2006 * 'The Immigrant', a short story, part of ''Mythic #2'', October 2006 Mythic Delirium Books. * 'Bad Sushi', a short story. Published in Apex Digest, Issue #10. Republished in "New Cthulhu", ed. Paula Guran, November 2011. * 'Wishbones', a short story, part of '' Aegri Somnia''. December 2006 Apex Digest. (paperback), (hardback) * 'Tanglefoot', a short story, published online by

, 2009. First release of the Clockwork Century universe. * 'Hell's Bells,' ''Grant’s Pass'', Morrigan Books 2009 * 'The Catastrophe Box', a short story ''Son of Retro Pulp Tales'',

2010 * 'Reluctance', a short story, part of "The Mammoth Book of Steampunk", first published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012

Articles (non-fiction)

*
Steampunk Wardrobe Customizations for the Lazy, the Poor, or the Crafty
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, October 2009 *
Steampunk for Beginners
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, October 2009 *
Growing up Poe
'

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, January 2009

Video games

* ''

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'' (2013)

References

External links

Cherie Priest's Official Site

Editorial Reviews on Amazon.com

Reviews at Barnes & Noble

Interview at

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