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

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. Under the name Katherine Addison, she published the fantasy novel ''

The Goblin Emperor ''The Goblin Emperor'' is a 2014 fantasy novel written by the American author Sarah Monette under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. The novel received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Neb ...

'', which received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the

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, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Early life

Monette was born in

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on November 25, 1974. She began writing at the age of 12. Monette studied Classics, English, and French at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Res ...

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 Spectrum award in 2003 for her short story "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland". Her first novel ''

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'' was published by

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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 '' The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', edited by

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, 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

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, in 2007. She also has been published in the award-winning '' Postscripts''. In 2007, she donated her archives to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at

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. Her 2014 novel ''

'' was published under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. The novel received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 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" (''

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'' 1, December 2003) *"The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" ('' Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries'' 7, May 2004) *"The Venebretti Necklace" (''

'' 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" (''

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'', 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'',

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, 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'', 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"
(''

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'', January 2022)

Boojum

*"Boojum" (with Elizabeth Bear) ('' Fast Ships, Black Sails'', eds.

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and

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, Night Shade Books, 2008) *"Mongoose" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2009) *"The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" (with Elizabeth Bear) (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" (''

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'' #15, January 2005) *"The Séance at Chisholm End" (''

'' #3, January 2006) *"A Gift of Wings" ''

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, 2006 *"The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear) (''

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'' #7, May 2006)
A Night in Electric Squidland
(

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#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'' 5.3, September 2006)
A Light in Troy
('' Clarkesworld Magazine'' #1, October 2006) *"Amante Dorée" (''

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'' #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" (''

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'', July 2007)
Under the Beansidhe's Pillow
(''

'' #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" (''

'', January 2010) *"Ashes, Ashes" ('' All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'', 2011) *"No Man's Land" (''

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'', 2011) *"The Devil in Gaylord's Creek" (2011) *"Why Do You Linger?" (2011) *"Absent from Felicity" ('' Somewhere Beneath Those Waves'', 2011) *"Impostors" ('' Somewhere Beneath Those Waves'', 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) *'' Somewhere Beneath Those Waves'' (

, 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