Sarah Monette

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Dr. Sarah Monette (http://www.sarahmonette.com/) is a writer of both fantasy and science fiction, including a good deal of work with paranormal and ghost stories. Her novels and stories feature strong women, and characters of various sexual orientations. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin--Madison in 2004.

Works

Novels

Melusine series

  • Mélusine (2006), Ace Books
  • The Virtu (2007), Ace Books (first four chapters on the author's website at the link below)
  • The Mirador (2007), Ace Books (first four chapters on the author's website at the link below)
  • Corambis (forthcoming 2009), Ace Books

Collection

  • The Bone Key (2007) (connected supernatural short stories featuring the same main character)

Short Stories and Poems

  • "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland" (2002) in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11 (November); reprinted in Trochu Divne Kusy 2. Laser-books, 2006: 473-483; and in So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction, edited by Steve Birman, Haworth Positronic Press, 2007; and in The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet edited by Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, Del Rey, 2007. Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Short Fiction, 2003.
  • "Queen of Swords" (2003) in Alienskin Magazine (November) (full text on the author's website at the link below)
  • "Sidhe Tigers" (2003) in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 13 (November)
  • "The Wall of Clouds (2003) in Alchemy 1 (December); reprinted in in The Bone Key.
  • "The Wall of Clouds (2003) in Alchemy 1 (December); reprinted in in The Bone Key.
  • "Bringing Helena Back" (2004) in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society (February); reprinted in The Bone Key.
  • "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" (2004) in Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7 (May); reprinted in The Bone Key.
  • "Straw" (2004) in Strange Horizons (June) (full txt at the link below)
  • "The Green Glass Paperweight" (2004) in Tales of the Unanticipated 25 (August); reprinted in The Bone Key.
  • "The Half-Sister" (2005) in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 15 (January)
  • "The Venebretti Necklace" (2004) in Alchemy 2 (September); reprinted in in The Bone Key.
  • "Elegy for a Demon Lover" (2005) in Tales of the Unanticipated 26 (October); reprinted in The Best of the Rest 4, edited by Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press; and in The Bone Key.
  • "Amante Dorée" (2006) in Paradox 10 (Winter); reprinted in Trochu Divne Kusy 3 (in press)
  • "National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West" (2006) in Fictitious Force 2 (Spring).
  • "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" (2006) in Tales of the Unanticipated 27 (May)
  • "The Séance at Chisholm End" (2006) in Alchemy 3 (May)
  • "A Night in Electric Squidland" (2006) in Lone Star Stories 15 (June)
  • "Draco campestris" (2006) in Strange Horizons (August); reprinted in Best American Fantasy, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer and Matthew Cheney, Prime Books.
  • "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day" (2006) in Ideomancer 5.3 (September); reprinted in Best New Fantasy 2, edited by Sean Wallace (in press).
  • "Drowning Palmer" (2006) in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society; reprinted in The Bone Key.; and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XX, eds. Ellen Datlow, [Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.
  • "A Gift of Wings" (2006) in The Queen in Winter, a four-author four-novella anthology, Ace Books.
  • "The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2006) in Aeon 7. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction XXIV, edited by Gardner Dozois (in press).
  • "A Light in Troy" (2006) in Clarkesworld Magazine 1; reprinted in Best New Romantic Fantasy, edited by Paula Guran, Juno Books-Wildside Press, 2007; and in Realms: The Clarkesworld Magazine Anthology (in press).
  • "The Bone Key" (2007) in Say ... What's the Combination? (Say... 6, May); reprinted in The Bone Key.
  • "Wait for Me" (2007) in Naked Snake Online (September); reprinted in in The Bone Key. (full text on the author's website at the link below)
  • "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow" (2007) in Lone Star Stories 22 (August) (full text at the link below)
  • "Listening to Bone" (2007) in The Bone Key
  • "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home" (2007) in Fantasy Magazine, Prime Books.
  • "Boojum" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2008) in Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books.
  • "Ashes, Ashes" (2008) in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society (in press)
  • "Darkness, as a Bride" (2008) in Cemetery Dance (in press).
  • "No Man's Land" (2008) in , St.Fictitious Force (in press)
  • "The World Without Sleep" (2008) in Postscripts (in press)
  • "Why Do You Linger?" (2008) in Subterranean Magazine (in press)
  • "The Yellow Dressing Gown" (2008) in Weird Tales (in press).

===Poems

  • "Night Train: Heading West" (2005) The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7:2 (Spring): 26-27; reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX, eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin's Press.
  • "The Vampire Smokes a Reflective Cigarette (date unknown), on the author's website at the link below

Online Fiction

  • Shadow Unit, an online fiction site created by Emma Bull and written by Bull, Will Shetterly, Elizabeth Bear, and Monette. The site is designed as the fan site for a fictional television show modeled on The X-Files. The "show" Shadow Unit features a wide variety of strong women, including one Asian and one African-American woman.

Nonfiction

  • It Harrows Me with Fear and Wonder: Horror and Haunting in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy, the author's dissertation for her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
  • more nonfiction links and bibliography on the author's website

External Links

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