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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.

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Early life

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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.[2][4] She specialized in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.[5]

Career

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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 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

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Year Work Award Category Result Ref
2003 "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland" Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Short Story Won
2006 Mélusine Crawford Award Shortlisted
James Tiptree Jr. Award Shortlisted
John W. Campbell Award Shortlisted
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 Shortlisted
Mélusine John W. Campbell Award Shortlisted
The Virtu Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Shortlisted
Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated—17th
2008 The Bone Key Shirley Jackson Award Collection Shortlisted
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 Shortlisted
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 Nominated—16th [14]
Nebula Award Novel Shortlisted [15]
2015 Hugo Award Novel Shortlisted [16]
Locus Award Fantasy Novel Won [17]
World Fantasy Award Novel Shortlisted [18]
RUSA CODES Reading List Fantasy Won
2022 The Witness for the Dead Hugo Award Novel Nomination Below Cutoff
2023 The Goblin Emperor Hugo Award Series Nomination Below Cutoff
The Grief of Stones Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated

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