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

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and was nominated for the

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and

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Early life

Monette was born in

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 downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Oak ...

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 Reser ...

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. 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 '' 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

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. 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 Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo A ...

, "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. Her 2014 novel ''

'' 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" (''

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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 ''Tales of the Unanticipated'', known as ''TOTU'', is a semiprozine that was founded under the auspices of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (known as Mn-STF or Minn-STF), and has since become independent. Like contemporaries such as ''Cran ...

'' 25, August 2004) *"Wait for Me" (''

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'', September 2004) *"Elegy for a Demon Lover" (''

'' 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, 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

) (''

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'', eds. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer,

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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
('' Strange Horizons'' #28, June 2004) *"The Half-Sister" ('' Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet'' #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) ('' Aeon'' #7, May 2006)
A Night in Electric Squidland
(

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#15, June 2006) *"Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" (''

'' #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 ''Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction'' (also known as ''Paradox Magazine'' or simply ''Paradox'') was a literary magazine featuring original short historical fiction in all of its forms up to novella length. This include ...

'' #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 ''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'' ( Prime Books, 2007) *''

'' ( Prime Books, 2011)

References

External links

*
The Sarah Monette Papers at Northern Illinois University

* *
Katherine Addison
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