Sarah Monette


Sarah Elizabeth Monette is an American novelist and short story writer, 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.
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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 University of Wisconsin–Madison. She specialized in Renaissance Drama and wrote 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 Mélusine was published by Ace Books in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist and a place in Locus's 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, Postscripts, 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 Elizabeth Bear, "The Ile of Dogges", appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, in 2007.
In 2007, she donated her archives to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Her 2014 novel The Goblin Emperor 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.

Awards

Sources:
YearWorkAwardCategoryResultRef
2003"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"Gaylactic Spectrum AwardsShort StoryWon
2006MélusineCrawford Award—
2006MélusineJames Tiptree Jr. Award—
2006MélusineJohn W. Campbell Award—
2006MélusineLocus AwardFirst Novel
2006MélusineSF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy Book
2007A Companion to WolvesLambda Literary AwardScience Fiction / Fantasy / Horror
2007MélusineJohn W. Campbell Award—
2007The VirtuGaylactic Spectrum AwardsNovel
2007The VirtuLocus AwardFantasy Novel
2008The Bone KeyShirley Jackson AwardCollection
2009"Boojum"Locus AwardShort Story
2010"Mongoose"Locus AwardNovelette
2010"White Charles"Locus AwardNovelette
2011"After the Dragon"Locus AwardShort Story
2011"After the Dragon"WSFA Small Press Award—
2012Somewhere Beneath Those WavesLocus AwardCollection
2012The Tempering of MenDavid Gemmell AwardLegend Award
2013"Blue Lace Agate"Locus AwardShort Story
2013"The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward""Locus AwardNovelette
2014The Goblin EmperorGoodreads Choice AwardsFantasy
2014The Goblin EmperorNebula AwardNovel
2015The Goblin EmperorHugo AwardNovel
2015The Goblin EmperorLocus AwardFantasy NovelWon
2015The Goblin EmperorWorld Fantasy AwardNovel
2015The Goblin EmperorRUSA CODES Reading ListFantasyWon
2022The Witness for the DeadHugo AwardNovel
2023The Goblin EmperorHugo AwardSeries
2023The Grief of StonesLocus AwardFantasy NovelNomitated

Novels

''[Doctrine of Labyrinths]'' series

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The Chronicles of Osreth

Published as Katherine Addison
Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy
Published as Katherine Addison, set in the same world as ''The Goblin Emperor''

Stand-alone novels

Published as Katherine Addison

Collections

Short fiction

Kyle Murchison Booth

  • "The Wall of Clouds"
  • "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox"
  • "The Venebretti Necklace"
  • "Bringing Helena Back"
  • "The Green Glass Paperweight"
  • "Wait for Me"
  • "Elegy for a Demon Lover"
  • "Drowning Palmer"
  • "The Bone Key"
  • "Listening to Bone"
  • "The World Without Sleep"
  • ""
  • "Unnatural Creatures"
  • "A Theory of Haunting"

Boojum

Shadow Unit Episodes
  • 1.03 "Dexterity"
  • 1.05 "Ballistic"
  • 3.00 "On Faith"
  • 4.03 "Hope Is Stronger Than Love"

Other short fiction

  • "Three Letters from the Queen of Elflands"
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  • "Sidhe Tigers"
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  • "The Half-Sister"
  • "The Séance at Chisholm End"
  • "A Gift of Wings" The Queen in Winter Ace Books, 2006
  • "The Ile of Dogges"
  • ""
  • "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains"
  • "National Geographic on Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West"
  • " "
  • ""
  • ""
  • "Amante Dorée"
  • "The Watcher in the Corners"
  • "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home"
  • ""
  • "Festival Lives, View 3: All God's Chillun Got Wings"
  • "Darkness, as a Bride"
  • "Fiddleback Ferns"
  • "Night Train: Heading West"
  • "Last Drink Bird Head"
  • "After the Dragon"
  • "Ashes, Ashes"
  • "No Man's Land"
  • "The Devil in Gaylord's Creek"
  • "Why Do You Linger?"
  • "Absent from Felicity"
  • "Impostors"
  • "Blue Lace Agate"
  • "Coyote Gets His Own Back"
  • "The Half-Life of Angels"
  • "Learning to See Dragons"
  • "National Geographic on Assignment: The Unicorn Enclosure"
  • "The Oracle of Abbey Road "