Bio
Sarah Monette was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the secret cities of the Manhattan Project. She studied English and Classics in college, and went on to get her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature. Her first novel, Mélusine was published by Ace Books in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Booklist and a place in Locus's Recommended Reading list for 2005. The sequel, The Virtu, followed in July 2006, also earning starred reviews and making Locus's Recommended Reading lists for 2006. The Mirador will be out this August, and the fourth and final book in the series, Summerdown, will be published in 2008. Her short stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Alchemy, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other venues, and have received four Honorable Mentions from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (eds. Datlow, Grant, and Link). Her poem "Night Train: Heading West" appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX, and a story she co-wrote with 2005 Campbell winner Elizabeth Bear, "The Ile of Dogges," will appear in The Year's Best SF (ed. Dozois) this year. The Bone Key, a collection of her short fiction featuring Kyle Murchison Booth, will be published by Prime Books this year, and a novel co-written with Elizabeth Bear, A Companion to Wolves, is forthcoming from Tor Books for the autumn. She collects books, and her husband collects computer parts, so their living space is the constantly contested border betwen these two imperial ambitions.
Bibliography
"Amante Dorée." Paradox 10 (Winter 2006): 4-11.
"Ashes, Ashes." All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society (in press).
The Bone Key. Prime Books (in press, 2007).
"The Bone Key." Say... What's the Combination? [Say... 6] (in press). Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007).
"Boojum" [with Elizabeth Bear]. Fast Ships, Black Sails, eds. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books (in press).
"Bringing Helena Back." All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 35 (February 2004): 92-100. Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007). Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVIII.
A Companion to Wolves [with Elizabeth Bear]. New York: Tor Books (in press).
"Darkness, as a Bride." Cemetery Dance (in press).
"Doing Tolkien Wrong: Why Fantasy Shouldn't Follow in Tolkien's Footsteps." Reflection's Edge (March 2005).
"Draco campestris." Strange Horizons (August 2006).
"Drowning Palmer." All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 41 (February 2006): 63-80. Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007).
"Elegy for a Demon Lover." Tales of the Unanticipated 26 (October 2005): 72-77. Reprinted in The Best of the Rest 4, ed. Brian Youmans. Sunnyvale, CA: Suddenly Press, 2006: 109-118. Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007).
"A Gift of Wings." The Queen in Winter. New York: Ace Books, 2006. 247-312.
"The Green Glass Paperweight." Tales of the Unanticipated 25 (August 2004): 86-90. Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007).
"The Half-Sister." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 15 (January 2005): 25-27.
"The Ile of Dogges" [with Elizabeth Bear]. Æon 7 (May 2006). Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction XXIV, ed. Gardner Dozois (in press).
"The Importance of Maps." The Broadsheet (September 2006).
"The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox." Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7 (May 2004): 14-22. Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007).
"Katabasis: Seraphic Trains." Tales of the Unanticipated 27 (2006): 8-20.
"Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day." Ideomancer 5.3 (September 2006).
"A Light in Troy." Clarkesworld Magazine 1 (October 2006).
"Listening to Bone." The Bone Key (in press, 2007).
Mélusine. New York: Ace Books, 2005. Long-listed for the 2005 James Tiptree, Jr., Award.
The Mirador. New York: Ace Books, 2007 (in press).
"National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West." Fictitious Force 2 (Spring 2006): 18.
"A Night in Electric Squidland." Lone Star Stories 15 (June 2006).
"Night Train: Heading West." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7:2 (Spring 2005): 26-27. Reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX, eds. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006. 78-79.
"Queen of Swords." AlienSkin Magazine (November 2003).
Review: John Clute, The Darkening Garden. Strange Horizons (January 2007).
"The Séance at Chisholm End." Alchemy 3 (May 2006): 56-68.
"Sidhe Tigers." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 13 (November 2003): 58.
"Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home." Fantasy Magazine (in press).
"Speaking and Silent Women in Upon Appleton House." SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 42:1 (Winter 2002): 155-71.
"Still Seeking Chloe and Olivia: How to Write Strong Female Characters." Reflection's Edge (April 2005).
"Straw." Strange Horizons (June 2004).
Summerdown. New York: Ace Books, 2008 (in press).
"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11 (November 2002): 20-27. Reprinted in Trochu divne kusy 2 (2006), Reprinted in So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction, ed. Steve Birman. Binghampton, NY: Haworth Positronic Press, 2007 (in press). Reprinted in The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, eds. Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link. New York: Del Rey, 2007 (in press). Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVI.
"Toward a Praxis of World-Building." Concussed. London: Concussion, 2006. 43-46
"The Venebretti Necklace." Alchemy 2 (September 2004): 44-73. Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007). Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVIII.
The Virtu. New York: Ace Books, 2006.
"Wait for Me." Naked Snake Online (September 2004). Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007).
"The Wall of Clouds." Alchemy 1 (December 2003): 45-82. Reprinted in The Bone Key (in press, 2007). Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVII.
"The World Without Sleep." Postscripts (in press).
"Why Do You Linger?" Subterranean Magazine (in press).