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Sarah Monette
American novelist and short story author

Sarah Elizabeth Monette (born November 25, 1974) 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, 1974.1 She began writing at the age of 12.2

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.34 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 Weekly7 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, 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.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.

Awards

Sources:1213

YearWorkAwardCategoryResultRef
2003"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"Gaylactic Spectrum AwardsShort StoryWon
2006MélusineCrawford AwardShortlisted
James Tiptree Jr. AwardShortlisted
John W. Campbell AwardShortlisted
Locus AwardFirst NovelNominated—7th
SF Site Readers PollSF/Fantasy BookNominated—9th
2007A Companion to WolvesLambda Literary AwardScience Fiction / Fantasy / HorrorShortlisted
MélusineJohn W. Campbell AwardShortlisted
The VirtuGaylactic Spectrum AwardsNovelShortlisted
Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated—17th
2008The Bone KeyShirley Jackson AwardCollectionShortlisted
2009"Boojum"Locus AwardShort StoryNominated—3rd
2010"Mongoose"Locus AwardNoveletteNominated—11th
"White Charles"Locus AwardNoveletteNominated—35th
2011"After the Dragon"Locus AwardShort StoryNominated—14th
WSFA Small Press AwardShortlisted
2012Somewhere Beneath Those WavesLocus AwardCollectionNominated—15th
2012The Tempering of MenDavid Gemmell AwardLegend AwardPreliminary Nominee
2013"Blue Lace Agate"Locus AwardShort StoryNominated—26th
"The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward""Locus AwardNoveletteNominated—12th
2014The Goblin EmperorGoodreads Choice AwardsFantasyNominated—16th14
Nebula AwardNovelShortlisted15
2015Hugo AwardNovelShortlisted16
Locus AwardFantasy NovelWon17
World Fantasy AwardNovelShortlisted18
RUSA CODES Reading ListFantasyWon
2022The Witness for the DeadHugo AwardNovelNomination Below Cutoff
2023The Goblin EmperorHugo AwardSeriesNomination Below Cutoff
The Grief of StonesLocus AwardFantasy NovelNominated

Bibliography

Novels

Doctrine of Labyrinths series

Iskryne series

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

Boojum

Shadow Unit Episodes20

  • 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"

Other short fiction

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References

  1. admin (September 20, 2015). "Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library". Locus Online. Retrieved August 10, 2021. https://locusmag.com/2015/09/sarah-monette-the-key-to-the-library/

  2. "Sarah Monette". June 30, 2009. Archived from the original on June 30, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) https://web.archive.org/web/20090630042815/http://www.barth.lib.in.us/monette.html

  3. admin (September 20, 2015). "Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library". Locus Online. Retrieved August 10, 2021. https://locusmag.com/2015/09/sarah-monette-the-key-to-the-library/

  4. "Sarah Monette | College of Arts & Sciences". www.ashland.edu. Retrieved August 10, 2021. https://www.ashland.edu/cas/faculty-staff/sarah-monette

  5. Nolen, Larry (August 3, 2007). "Interview with Sarah Monette, Part I". Of Blog. Retrieved May 12, 2014. http://ofblog.blogspot.ca/2007/08/interview-with-sarah-monette-part-i.html

  6. "2003 Awards". Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Retrieved May 6, 2013. http://www.spectrumawards.org/2003.htm

  7. "Mélusine". Publishers Weekly. July 11, 2005. Retrieved May 6, 2013. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01286-2

  8. "Recommended Reading: 2005". Locus Magazine. Retrieved May 6, 2013. http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/02RecommendedReading.html

  9. "Recommended Reading: 2006". Locus Magazine. Retrieved May 6, 2013. http://www.locusmag.com/2007/2006RecommendedReading.html

  10. "Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection". Northern Illinois University. Retrieved May 6, 2013. http://libguides.niu.edu/content.php?pid=145620&sid=1238174

  11. Sarah Monette (November 13, 2009). "Announcement". Notes from the Labyrinth. livejournal.com. Retrieved May 6, 2013. http://truepenny.livejournal.com/693134.html

  12. "sfadb : Sarah Monette Titles". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved July 28, 2024. https://www.sfadb.com/Sarah_Monette_Titles

  13. "Award Bibliography: Sarah Monette". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved July 28, 2024. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/eaw.cgi?21006

  14. "Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Fantasy!". Goodreads. Retrieved November 7, 2024. https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-fantasy-books-2014

  15. "2014 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. February 20, 2015. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2015. http://www.sfwa.org/2015/02/2014-nebula-awards-nominees-announced/

  16. "2015 Hugo and Campbell Award Finalists". Locus. April 4, 2015. Archived from the original on December 11, 2015. Retrieved April 4, 2015. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/04/2015-hugo-and-campbell-award-finalists/

  17. "2015 Locus Awards Winners". Locus. June 27, 2015. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2015. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/06/2015-locus-awards-winners/

  18. World Fantasy Convention 2015. "WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOMINEES". Archived from the original on June 8, 2023. Retrieved July 9, 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) http://www.wfc2015.org/wf-nominees01.html

  19. Monette, Sarah (January 23, 2011). "PSA: Unnatural Creatures". Retrieved December 17, 2022. https://truepenny.dreamwidth.org/798417.html

  20. "Reading Order". shadowunit.org. Retrieved September 10, 2023. http://shadowunit.org/readingorder.html