Bio

Sarah Monette was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the top secret cities of the Manhattan Project. She studied English and Classics in college, and went on to obtain her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature. Her first novel, Melusine was published by Ace Books in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Booklist and a place in Locus's suggested Reading list for 2005. The sequel, The Virtu, will follow in July 2006, with two more books in the series listed for 2007 and 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 finest Fantasy and Horror. She collects books, and her husband collects computer parts, so their living space is the constantly contested border between these two imperial ambitions.

Published

"Bringing Helena Back." All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 35 (February 2004): 92-100. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVIII.

"Doing Tolkien Wrong: Why Fantasy Shouldn't Follow in Tolkien's Footsteps." Reflection's Edge (Mar 2005).

"Drowning Palmer." All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society (in press).

"Elegy for a Demon Lover." Tales of the Unanticipated 26 (Oct 2005-July 2006): 72-77.

"A Gift of Wings." The Queen in Winter. New York: Ace Books, 2006. 247-312.

"The Green Glass Paperweight." Tales of the Unanticipated 25 (Aug 2004-July 2005): 86-90.

"The Half-Sister." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 15 (Jan 2005): 25-27.

"The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox." Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7 (May 2004): 14-22.

"Katabasis: Seraphic Trains." Tales of the Unanticipated (in press).

Melusine. New York: Ace Books, 05.

The Mirador. New York: Ace Books, 07 (in press).

"National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West." Fictitious Force (in press).

"Night Train: Heading West." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7:2 (Spring 2005): 26-27.

"Queen of Swords." AlienSkin Magazine (Nov 2003).

"The Sance at Chisholm End." Alchemy 3 (in press).

"Sidhe Tigers." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 13 (Nov 2003): 58.

"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 (Apr 2005).

"Straw." Strange Horizons (Jun 2004).

Summerdown. New York: Ace Books, 08 (in press).

"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11 (November 2002): 20-27. Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Short Fiction, 2003. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVI. Reprinted in So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction, Binghampton, NY: Haworth Positronic Press, 07 (in press).

"The Venebretti Necklace." Alchemy 2 (September 2004): 44-73. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVIII.

The Virtu. New York: Ace Books (in press, Jul 2006).

"Wait for Me." Naked Snake Online (September-Dec 2004).

"The Wall of Clouds." Alchemy 1 (Dec 2003): 45-82. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XVII.