Sarah Monette

Monette was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on November 25, 1974.{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2015-09-20 |title=Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library |url=https://locusmag.com/2015/09/sarah-monette-the-key-to-the-library/ |access-date=2021-08-10 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}} She began writing at the age of 12.{{cite web|date=30 June 2009|title=Sarah Monette|url=http://www.barth.lib.in.us/monette.html|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630042815/http://www.barth.lib.in.us/monette.html|archivedate=30 June 2009}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Sarah Monette {{!}} College of Arts & Sciences|url=https://www.ashland.edu/cas/faculty-staff/sarah-monette|access-date=2021-08-10|website=www.ashland.edu}} She specialized in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.{{cite web|last=Nolen|first=Larry|date=2007-08-03|title=Interview with Sarah Monette, Part I|url=http://ofblog.blogspot.ca/2007/08/interview-with-sarah-monette-part-i.html|work=Of Blog|accessdate=2014-05-12}}

Monette won the Spectrum Award in 2003 for her short story "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland".{{cite web |url=http://www.spectrumawards.org/2003.htm |title=2003 Awards |publisher=Gaylactic Spectrum Awards |accessdate=2013-05-06}} Her first novel Mélusine was published by Ace Books in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01286-2 |title=Mélusine |work=Publishers Weekly |date=2005-07-11 |accessdate=2013-05-06}} and Booklist and a place in Locus's Recommended Reading list for 2005.{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/02RecommendedReading.html |title=Recommended Reading: 2005 |work=Locus Magazine |accessdate=2013-05-06}} The sequel, The Virtu, followed in July 2006, also earning starred reviews and making Locus's Recommended Reading lists for 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2007/2006RecommendedReading.html |title=Recommended Reading: 2006 |work=Locus Magazine |accessdate=2013-05-06}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://libguides.niu.edu/content.php?pid=145620&sid=1238174 |title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection |publisher=Northern Illinois University |accessdate=2013-05-06}}

Her 2014 novel The Goblin Emperor was published under the pseudonym Katherine Addison.{{cite web |url=http://truepenny.livejournal.com/693134.html |author=Sarah Monette |title=Announcement |work=Notes from the Labyrinth |publisher=livejournal.com |date=2009-11-13 |accessdate=2013-05-06}} The novel received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

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• {{Cite book |last=Monette |first=Sarah Elizabeth |title=Mélusine |publisher=Ace Books |year=2005 |isbn=9780441012862 |edition=hardcover 1st |location=New York |pages=1–432 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Monette |first=Sarah Elizabeth |title=The Virtu |publisher=Ace Books |year=2006 |isbn=9780441014040 |edition=hardcover 1st |location=New York |pages=1–439 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Monette |first=Sarah Elizabeth |title=The Mirador |publisher=Ace Books |year=2007 |isbn=9780441015009 |edition=hardcover 1st |location=New York |pages=1–426 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Monette |first=Sarah Elizabeth |title=Corambis |publisher=Ace Books |year=2009 |isbn=9780441015962 |edition=hardcover 1st |location=New York |pages=1–421 |author-mask=2}}

• {{Cite book |last1=Addison |first1=Katherine |title=A Companion to Wolves |last2=Bear |first2=Elizabeth |publisher=Tor Books |year=2007 |isbn=9780765318169 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–302 |author-mask=2 |author-link2=Elizabeth Bear}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Addison |first1=Katherine |title=The Tempering of Men |last2=Bear |first2=Elizabeth |publisher=Tor Books |year=2011 |isbn=9780765324702 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–304 |author-mask=2 |author-link2=Elizabeth Bear}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Addison |first1=Katherine |title=An Apprentice to Elves |last2=Bear |first2=Elizabeth |publisher=Tor Books |year=2015 |isbn=9780765324719 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–336 |author-mask=2 |author-link2=Elizabeth Bear}}

Published as Katherine Addison

• {{Cite book |last=Addison |first=Katherine |title=The Goblin Emperor |publisher=Tor Books |year=2014 |isbn=9780765326997 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–446 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Addison |first=Katherine |title=The Orb of Cairado |publisher=Subterranean Press |year=2025 |isbn=9781645242130 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–120 |author-mask=2}}

Published as Katherine Addison, set in the same world as The Goblin Emperor

• {{Cite book |last=Addison |first=Katherine |title=The Witness for the Dead |publisher=Tor Books |year=2021 |isbn=9780765387424 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–240 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Addison |first=Katherine |title=The Grief of Stones |publisher=Tor Books |year=2022 |isbn=9781250813893 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–249 |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Addison |first=Katherine |title=The Tomb of Dragons |publisher=Tor Books |year=2025 |isbn=9781250816191 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–352 |author-mask=2}}

Published as Katherine Addison

• {{Cite book |last=Addison |first=Katherine |title=The Angel of the Crows |publisher=Tor Books |year=2020 |isbn=9780765387394 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–448 |author-mask=2}}

• The Bone Key (Prime Books, 2007)
• Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (Prime Books, 2011)

• "The Wall of Clouds" (Alchemy Magazine 1, December 2003)
• "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" (Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7, May 2004)
• "The Venebretti Necklace" (Alchemy Magazine 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" (Naked Snake Online, 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, Prime Books, 2007)
• "The World Without Sleep" (Postscripts, Spring 2008)
• [https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-yellow-dressing-gown/ "The Yellow Dressing Gown"] (Weird Tales, March 2008)
• [https://www.katherineaddison.com/about-4 "The Replacement"] (The Willows, September 2008)
• "[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/monette_09_09 White Charles]" (Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2009)
• "Unnatural Creatures" (Unnatural Creatures, self-published, 2011){{Cite web |last=Monette |first=Sarah |date=January 23, 2011 |title=PSA: Unnatural Creatures |url=https://truepenny.dreamwidth.org/798417.html |access-date=December 17, 2022}}
• [https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/to-die-for-moonlight/ "To Die for Moonlight"] (Apex Magazine, July 2013)
• [https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/testimony-dragons-teeth/ "The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth"] (Uncanny Magazine, March 2018)
• [https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-haunting-of-dr-claudius-winterson/ "The Haunting of Dr. Claudius Winterson"] (Uncanny Magazine, January 2022)
• "A Theory of Haunting" (SOLARIS, 2023)

• "Boojum" (with Elizabeth Bear) (Fast Ships, Black Sails, eds. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books, 2008)
• "Mongoose" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2009)
• "The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2012)

Shadow Unit Episodes{{Cite web |title=Reading Order |url=http://shadowunit.org/readingorder.html |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=shadowunit.org}}

• 1.03 "Dexterity"
• 1.05 "Ballistic" (with Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and Amanda Downum)
• 3.00 "On Faith"
• 4.03 "Hope Is Stronger Than Love"

• "Three Letters from the Queen of Elflands" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11, November 2002)
• "[http://www.sarahmonette.com/qos.html Queen of Swords] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121222546/http://www.sarahmonette.com/qos.html |date=2007-11-21 }}" (Alienskin Magazine #2.4, November 2003)
• "Sidhe Tigers" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #13, November 2003)
• "[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040628/straw.shtml Straw] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103001253/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040628/straw.shtml |date=2007-11-03 }}" (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)
• "[http://literary.erictmarin.com/archives/Issue%2015/squidland.htm 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)
• "[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060807/draco-f.shtml Draco campestris] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024024424/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060807/draco-f.shtml |date=2007-10-24 }}" (Strange Horizons, August 7, 2006)
• "[http://www.ideomancer.com/main/vol5issue3/monette/one.html Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day]" (Ideomancer 5.3, September 2006)
• "[https://web.archive.org/web/20071026150048/http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/monette_10_06.html 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)
• "[http://literary.erictmarin.com/archives/Issue%2022/pillow.htm 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)

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• [http://www.fantasyliterature.net/monettesarah.html Sarah Monette] at Fantasy Literature
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