Sarah Monette
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.[11][12][13][15]
Also recorded as Katherine Addison
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- Name
- Sarah Monette
- Born
- 25 November 1974
- Birthplace
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.[1]
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Education
- Case Western Reserve University University of Wisconsin–Madison[4] (PhD)
- Awards
- 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Award, 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
- Nationality
- United States.
- Fields
- literature, fantasy literature and horror literature.
- Known for
- Mélusine and The Goblin Emperor.
- Honours
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
- Languages
- American English and English.
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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.[11][12][13][15]
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Biography
Biography
Sarah Monette studied at Oak Ridge High School. The recorded working language is American English and English. The field of work recorded is literature, fantasy literature and horror literature. Works named in the authority record are Mélusine and The Goblin Emperor. Distinctions recorded are Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Sarah Monette • Pen Name — Katherine Addison • Born — 25 November 1974 • Birthplace — Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.[1] • Occupation — Novelist • Education — Case Western Reserve University University of Wisconsin–Madison[4] (PhD) • Genre — Speculative fiction • Notable Works — Mélusine, The Goblin Emperor • Awards — 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Award, 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel • Website — http: www.sarahmonette.com/
Early life
Early life
Monette was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on November 25, 1974.[2] She began writing at the age of 12.[3] 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.[5]
Career
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 Weekly[7] and Booklist and a place in Locuss 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. The novel received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
Doctrine of Labyrinths series
Doctrine of Labyrinths series
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Iskryne series
Iskryne series
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The Chronicles of Osreth
The Chronicles of Osreth
Published as Katherine Addison * *
Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy
Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy
Published as Katherine Addison, set in the same world as The Goblin Emperor * • "Min Zemerin's Plan". Sunday Morning Transport.[21] * *
Stand-alone novels
Stand-alone novels
Published as Katherine Addison *
Kyle Murchison Booth
Kyle Murchison Booth
• "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) • "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)[22] • "To Die for Moonlight" (Apex Magazine, July 2013) • "The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth" (Uncanny Magazine, March 2018) • "The Haunting of Dr. Claudius Winterson" (Uncanny Magazine, January 2022) • "A Theory of Haunting" (SOLARIS, 2023)
Boojum
Boojum
• "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[23] • 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
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" (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) • "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) • "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 #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) • "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)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1974
Sarah Monette born at Oak Ridge.
2008
Shadow Unit Season 1 Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Will Shetterly, Leah Bobet & Holly Black (2008) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
Collections
Collections
• The Bone Key (Prime Books, 2007) • Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (Prime Books, 2011)
Holdings and surviving copies
Where the work is held
Holdings and surviving copies
Where material relating to Sarah Monette is held. Identity and origins. She also worked under the name Katherine Addison. The authorities additionally record the heading Katherine Addison. Her recorded languages were American English and English.
Awards
Sources: • Year — Work — Award — Category — Result — Ref • 2003 — "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland" — Gaylactic Spectrum Awards — Short Story • 2006 — Mélusine — Crawford Award — — • James Tiptree Jr. Award — — • John W. Campbell Award — — • Locus Award — First Novel — Nominated—7th • SF Site Readers Poll — SF/Fantasy Book — Nominated—9th • 2007 — A Companion to Wolves — Lambda Literary Award — Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror • Mélusine — John W. Campbell Award — — • The Virtu — Gaylactic Spectrum Awards — Novel • Locus Award — Fantasy Novel — Nominated—17th • 2008 — The Bone Key — Shirley Jackson Award — Collection • 2009 — "Boojum" — Locus Award — Short Story — Nominated—3rd • 2010 — "Mongoose" — Locus Award — Novelette — Nominated—11th • "White Charles" — Locus Award — Novelette — Nominated—35th • 2011 — "After the Dragon" — Locus Award — Short Story — Nominated—14th • WSFA Small Press Award — — • 2012 — Somewhere Beneath Those Waves — Locus Award — Collection — Nominated—15th • 2012 — The Tempering of Men — David Gemmell Award — Legend Award — Preliminary Nominee • 2013 — "Blue Lace Agate" — Locus Award — Short Story — Nominated—26th • "The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward"" — Locus Award — Novelette — Nominated—12th • 2014 — The Goblin Emperor — Goodreads Choice Awards — Fantasy[14] — Nominated—16th • Nebula Award — Novel • 2015 — Hugo Award — Novel[16] • Locus Award — Fantasy Novel • World Fantasy Award — Novel[18] • RUSA CODES Reading List — Fantasy • 2023 — The Grief of Stones — Locus Award — Fantasy Novel[17] • 2026 — The Orb of Cairado — Locus Award — Novella[19] — Finalist • The Chronicles of Osreth — Hugo Award — Series[20] — Finalist
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Sarah Monette: Tangents and Curlicues. Locus Online. April 2008.
- 2.admin. Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library. Locus Online. 2015-09-20.
- 3.Sarah Monette. 30 June 2009.
- 4.Sarah Monette College of Arts & Sciences. www.ashland.edu.
- 5.Nolen, Larry. Interview with Sarah Monette, Part I. Of Blog. 2007-08-03.
- 6.Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. 2003 Awards.
- 7.Mélusine. Publishers Weekly. 2005-07-11.
- 8.Recommended Reading: 2005. Locus Magazine.
- 9.Recommended Reading: 2006. Locus Magazine.
- 10.Northern Illinois University. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection.
- 11.Sarah Monette. Announcement. Notes from the Labyrinth. livejournal.com. 2009-11-13.
- 12.sfadb : Sarah Monette Titles. www.sfadb.com.
- 13.Award Bibliography: Sarah Monette. www.isfdb.org.
- 14.Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Fantasy!. Goodreads.
- 15.Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 2014 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced. February 20, 2015.
- 16.2015 Hugo and Campbell Award Finalists. Locus. 2015-04-04.
- 17.2015 Locus Awards Winners. Locus. 27 June 2015.
- 18.World Fantasy Convention 2015. WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOMINEES.
- 19.Locus Online. 2026 Locus Awards Winners. May 30, 2026.
- 20.2026 Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Winners. Locus. 31 Aug 2026.
- 21.Addison, Katherine. Min Zemerin’s Plan. www.sundaymorningtransport.com.
- 22.Monette, Sarah. PSA: Unnatural Creatures. January 23, 2011.
- 23.Reading Order. shadowunit.org.
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