Sarah Monette

Sarah Elizabeth Monette[2] (born November 25, 1974) is an American novelist and short story author, writing mostly in the genres of fantasy and horror. Under the name Katherine Addison, she published the fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor, which received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Sarah Monette
Monette at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo in 2014
Born (1974-11-25) November 25, 1974
Oak Ridge, Tennessee[1]
Pen nameKatherine Addison
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
GenreSpeculative fiction
Notable worksMélusine, The Goblin Emperor
Notable awards2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Award, 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Website
www.sarahmonette.com

Early life

Monette was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on November 25, 1974.[2] She began writing at the age of 12.[3]

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 University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2][4] She specialized in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.[5]

Career

Monette won the Spectrum award in 2003 for her short story "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland".[6] Her first novel Mélusine was published by Ace Books in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly[7] and Booklist and a place in Locus's Recommended Reading list for 2005.[8] The sequel, The Virtu, followed in July 2006, also earning starred reviews and making Locus's Recommended Reading lists for 2006.[9]

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 the award-winning Postscripts.

In 2007, she donated her archives to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.[10]

Her 2014 novel The Goblin Emperor was published under the pseudonym Katherine Addison.[11] The novel received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Bibliography

Doctrine of Labyrinths series

  • (2005). Mélusine (1st ed.). New York: Ace Books. pp. 1–432. ISBN 978-0441012862.
  • (2006). The Virtu (hardcover ed.). Ace Books. pp. 1–439. ISBN 978-0441014040.
  • (2007). The Mirador (hardcover ed.). Ace Books. pp. 1–426. ISBN 978-0441015009.
  • (2009). Corambis (hardcover ed.). Ace Books. pp. 1–421. ISBN 978-0441015962.

Iskryne series

Standalone novels

Published as Katherine Addison

Cemeteries of Amalo series

Published as Katherine Addison

Kyle Murchison Booth

Boojum

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" (Strange Horizons #28, June 2004)
  • "The Half-Sister" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #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) (Aeon #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" (Strange Horizons, 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" (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, 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

References

  1. "Sarah Monette: Tangents and Curlicues". Locus Online. April 2008. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
  2. admin (2015-09-20). "Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library". Locus Online. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  3. "Sarah Monette". 30 June 2009. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. "Sarah Monette | College of Arts & Sciences". www.ashland.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  5. Nolen, Larry (2007-08-03). "Interview with Sarah Monette, Part I". Of Blog. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
  6. "2003 Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  7. "Mélusine". Publishers Weekly. 2005-07-11. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  8. "Recommended Reading: 2005". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  9. "Recommended Reading: 2006". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  10. "Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection". Northern Illinois University. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  11. Sarah Monette (2009-11-13). "Announcement". Notes from the Labyrinth. livejournal.com. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  12. Monette, Sarah (January 23, 2011). "PSA: Unnatural Creatures". Retrieved December 17, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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