C. S. E. Cooney

{{short description|American writer of fantasy literature|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Claire Suzanne Elizabeth Cooney{{Cite news|url=https://csecooney.com/about/|title=About|date=2015-01-23|work=C.S.E. Cooney|access-date=2017-10-11|language=en-US}} (born 12 December 1981) is an American writer of fantasy literature. She is best known for her fantasy poetry and short stories and has won the Rhysling Award for her poem "The Sea King's Second Bride" in 2011{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/07/2011-rhysling-award-winners/|title=Locus Online News » 2011 Rhysling Award Winners|last=Publications|first=Locus|website=www.locusmag.com|date=20 July 2011 |language=en|access-date=2017-10-11}} and the World Fantasy Award—Collection for her collection Bone Swans in 2016.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=October 30, 2016 |title=2016 World Fantasy Awards Winners |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/10/world-fantasy-awards-winners-3/ |access-date=2017-10-11 |website=Locus Magazine |language=en}}

Biography

Cooney grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, before leaving after 20 years, lived in Chicago for 10 years, lived in Rhode Island for five years,{{Cite news|url=https://uncannymagazine.com/article/interview-c-s-e-cooney/|title=Interview: C.S.E. Cooney - Uncanny Magazine|work=Uncanny Magazine|access-date=2017-10-11|language=en-US}} and then moved to Queens, New York, to live with her husband: author, professor, and game designer, Carlos Hernandez. During her time in Chicago, she attended Columbia College, where she received her degree in fiction writing with a minor in theater.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4511345.C_S_E_Cooney|title=C.S.E. Cooney|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2017-10-11}}

In addition to writing, she is a poet, a musician, an actor, and audiobook narrator.

Awards and honors

In 2022, Kirkus Reviews named Saint Death's Daughter one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.{{Cite web |title=Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022 |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-2022/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

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!|Year !! Title !! Award !! Category !! Result !! Ref.

2016

|Bone Swans: Stories

|World Fantasy Award|| Collection || {{won}} || {{Cite web |date=2016-10-30 |title=Announcing the 2016 World Fantasy Award Winners |url=https://www.tor.com/2016/10/30/announcing-the-2016-world-fantasy-award-winners/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Tor.com |language=en-US}}

2017

|Clockwork Phoenix 5

|World Fantasy Award|| Anthology || {{sho}} || {{Cite web |title=2017 World Fantasy Awards |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/2017-world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-finalists/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=World Fantasy Convention |language=en-US}}

2018

| rowspan="3" |Sword and Sonnet

|Aurealis Award|| Anthology || {{sho}} || {{Cite web |last=Newcombe |first=Ion |date=2019-02-20 |title=Aurealis Awards 2018 Finalists |url=https://asff.org.au/aurealis-awards-2018-finalists/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=The Australian Science Fiction Foundation |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |date=21 February 2019 |title=Aurealis Awards 2018 finalists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/02/21/124039/aurealis-awards-2018-finalists-announced/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Books + Publishing |language=en-AU}}

rowspan="2" |2019

|Ditmar Award|| — || {{sho}} || {{Cite web |last=Newcombe |first=Ion |date=2019-06-11 |title=Ditmar Award Winners 2019 |url=https://asff.org.au/ditmar-award-winners-2019/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=The Australian Science Fiction Foundation |language=en-AU}}

World Fantasy AwardAnthology{{sho}}{{Cite web |date=2019-07-25 |title=Announcing the 2019 World Fantasy Award Finalists |url=https://www.tor.com/2019/07/25/announcing-the-2019-world-fantasy-award-finalists/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Tor.com |language=en-US}}
rowspan="2" |2020

|The Best of Uncanny

|Locus Award|| Anthology || {{nom}} || {{Cite web |date=2020-06-27 |title=2020 Locus Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2020/06/locus-awards-winners-2020/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}

Desdemona and the Deep

|Locus Award

Novella{{nom}}{{Cite web |date=2020-06-27 |title=2020 Locus Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2020/06/locus-awards-winners-2020/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Locus Magazine |language=en-US}}
rowspan="2" |2021

| rowspan="2" |The Book of Dragons

|Locus Award|| Anthology || {{won}} || {{Cite web |date=2021-06-26 |title=2021 Locus Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2021/06/2021-locus-awards-winners/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}

World Fantasy AwardAnthology{{sho}}{{Cite news |date=2021-11-07 |title=2021 World Fantasy Award Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2021/11/2021-world-fantasy-award-winners/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}

Works

= Novels =

  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=The Twice-Drowned Saint |year=2020 |others=In A Sinister Quartet, ed. Mike Allen |publisher=Dark Moon Books |ISBN=9781732644038}}
  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=Saint Death's Daughter |year=2022 |publisher=Solaris |ISBN=9781786184702}}

= Novellas =

  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=The Big Bah-Ha |year=2010 |publisher=Kettlefish Press |ISBN=9780979808111}}
  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=Desdemona and the Deep |year=2019 |publisher=Tor Books |ISBN=9781250229830}}

= Collections =

  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=Jack o' the Hills |year=2011 |publisher=Fox Spirit |ISBN=9781907881060}}
  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=How to Flirt in Faerieland & Other Wild Rhymes |year=2012 |publisher=Fox Spirit |ISBN=9781907881145}}
  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=Bone Swans |year=2015 |publisher=Mythic Delirium Books |ISBN=9780988912441}}
  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=The Witch in the Almond Tree and Other Stories |year=2020 |publisher=Kettlefish Press |asin=B08LSLDW81}}
  • {{cite book |first=C. S. E. |last=Cooney |author-mask=2 |title=Dark Breakers |year=2022 |publisher=Dark Moon Books |ISBN=9781732644045}}

= Series =

== Dark Breakers ==

  • The Breaker Queen (Oct 2014)
  • The Two Paupers (Jan 2015)
  • Desdemona and the Deep (July 2019)
  • "Salissay's Laundries" (February 2022)
  • "Longergreen" (February 2022)
  • "Susurra to the Moon" (February 2022)

== The Witch's Garden ==

  • The Witch in the Almond Tree (July 2014)
  • Witch, Beast, Saint: An Erotic Fairy Tale (July 2014)

= Short fiction =

  • "Lorelei's Little Deaths" from Book of Dead Things (2007)
  • "Stone Shoes" in Subterranean Online, Summer (2007)
  • "My Body Your Banquet" from Hell in the Heartland (2007)
  • "Three Fancies from the Infernal Garden" from Subterranean Online, Winter (2009)
  • "Braiding the Ghosts" from Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (2010)
  • "Household Spirits" in Strange Horizons (2010)
  • "Pale, and from a Sea-Wave Rising" in Apex Magazine (2010)
  • "The Last Sophia" in Strange Horizons (2011)
  • "The Canary of Candletown" from Steam-Powered II: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories (2011)
  • "Zing Zou Zou" from Toasted Cake, #24 (2012)
  • "Godmother Lizard" in Black Gate Magazine (2012)
  • "Life on the Sun" in Black Gate Magazine (2012); reprinted in Bone Swans
  • "How the Milkmaid Struck a Bargain with the Crooked One" from Giganotosaurus (2013)
  • "Martyr's Gem" from Giganotosaurus (2013)
  • "Ten Cigars" in Strange Horizons (2013)
  • "The Bone Swans of Amandale" from Bone Swans (2015); reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas (2016)
  • "The Book of May" (with Carlos Hernandez) from Clockwork Phoenix 5 (2016)
  • "Though She Be But Little" in Uncanny Magazine (2017)
  • "Lily-White & The Thief of Lesser Night" from Mad Hatters and March Hares (Dec 2017)
  • "As for Peace, Call it Murder" from Sword and Sonnet (September 2018)
  • "Or Perhaps Up" from Where the Veil is Thin (2020)
  • "A Minnow, or Perhaps a Colossal Squid" with Carlos Hernandez, from Mermaids Monthly (April 2021)
  • "From the Archives of the Museum of Eerie Skins: An Account" in Uncanny Magazine (July 2021)
  • "Snowed In" with Carlos Hernandez, from The Bridge to Elsewhere, ed. Julia Rios and Alana Joli Abbott (2022)

= Poems =

  • Sunday Ramble (2008)
  • Cody Coyote (2009)
  • Coyote Does Chicago (2009)
  • Goblin Girls (2009)
  • Ere One Can Say It Lightens (2010)
  • She Who Rules the Bitter Reaches (2010)
  • The Sea King's Second Bride (2010)
  • Dogstar Men (2010)
  • Postcards from Mars (2011)
  • Sleeping Furies (2012)
  • What Is Owed (2013)
  • Voyage to a Distant Star (2013)
  • Threnody (2013)
  • Little Sally and the Bull Fiddle God (2014)
  • Deep Bitch (2015)
  • The Saga of Captain Jens (2015)
  • Toujours Il Coûte Trop Cher (with Mike Allen) (2015)
  • Ivan Icarus (2016)
  • Foxgirl Cycle Song: 1 (2016)
  • "The Wyrm of Lirr" (The Book of Dragons, ed. Jonathan Strahan, July 2020)
  • "The Sole-Stitcher"(The Deadlands, November 2021)
  • "Werewoman" (Strange Horizons, December 2021)
  • "Nightworld", "Visiting Child", "The Ogress" (Ghoul II, March 2021)

= Musical albums =

  • Alecto! Alecto! (as Brimstone Rhine) (July 2015)
  • Headless Bride (as Brimstone Rhine) (Jan 2016)
  • Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir (2018)

References

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