Catherine Fisher

Catherine Fisher (born 1957) is a Welsh poet and children's novelist. She has also worked as a school and university teacher.
Work experience
Catherine Fisher has worked as a primary-school teacher and as an archaeologist. She also taught writing for children at the University of Glamorgan.She has been a full-time writer of fiction and poetry since 2002.
Writing
Fisher has published four poetry collections with Seren Books: Immrama (1988), The Unexplored Ocean (c. 1994), Altered States (1999) and The Bramble King (2019). She has also published a pamphlet, Folklore (2003), with Smith/Doorstop Books, and many poems in magazines and anthologies. The collection Immrama won the Welsh Arts Council Young Writers' Prize in 1989. She won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in the same year with her poem 'Marginalia'.
Since the late 1980s, Fisher has been writing children's fantasy, both Young Adult, and middle grade. Her novels of this kind have been translated into over 30 languages, and many of her works have won or been shortlisted for literary awards. She has twice won the Welsh Books Council Tir na n'Og prize for fiction in English, with The Candle Man (2000) and The Clockwork Crow (2015) Her young adult fantasies Incarceron and Sapphique were New York Times bestsellers and Times Book of the Year. The Oracle, the first volume of a trilogy mixing Egyptian and Greek myth, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. The Clockwork Crow, first of an acclaimed trilogy for middle grade, an enchanting reworking of Welsh fairylore and Victorian Gothic,was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize. Fisher's work mixes myth, legend and folktale, with vibrant characters and language that is precise and evocative.
Awards and honors
Publications
Poetry
Immrama (1988) Seren Books
The Unexplored Ocean (1994)Seren Books
Altered States (1999) Seren Books
Folklore (2003) Smith/Doorstop Books
The Bramble King (2019) Seren Books.
Prose
Standalone books
The Conjuror's Game (1990) The Bodley Head
The Conjuror's Game (1991) Red Fox
Fintan's Tower (1991) The Bodley Head
Fintan's Tower (1992) Red Fox
Saint Tarvel's Bell (1992) Chivers Press
The Candle Man (1994.) The Bodley Head
The Candle Man (1994) Red Fox .
The Hare And Other Stories (1994) Pont books
Belin's Hill (1997) The Bodley Head
Belin's Hill (1997) Red Fox
The Lammas Field (1999) Hodder Children's
Darkwater Hall (2000) Hodder Children's
Corbenic (2002) Red Fox
Darkhenge (2005) The Bodley Head
The Weather Dress (2005) Pont Books
Crown of Acorns (May 2010) Hodder Children's Books.
Short Stories.
The Red Gloves and Other Stories (2021) Firefly Press
The Snow-Walker trilogy
The Snow-Walker's Son (1993) The Bodley Head Red Fox pb
The Empty Hand (1995) The Bodley Head Red Fox pb
The Soul Thieves (1996) The Bodley Head Red Fox pb
The Book of the Crow series
(US title: Relic Master series)
The Relic Master Bodley Head ISBN (1998)0370324269 Red Fox paperback 1998 (US title: The Dark City, 2011)
The Interrex (1999) Bodley Head Red Fox paperback 2000 (US title: The Lost Heiress, 2011)
Flain's Coronet (2000) Bodley Head Red Fox paperback 0099403064 (US title: The Hidden Coronet, 2011)
The Margrave (2001) Red Fox paperback 0099404877 (US title: The Margrave, 2011)
The Oracle trilogy
The Oracle Hodder Childrens 2003 ' (US title: The Oracle Betrayed Greenwillow Books, 2003)
The Archon Hodder Childrens 2004 (US title: The Sphere of Secrets Greenwillow Books, 2004)
The Scarab Hodder Childrens 2005 (US title: Day of the Scarab, Greenwillow Books 2005)
Incarceron series
Incarceron (2007) Hodder Childrens 2007 US Dial Penguin.
Sapphique (2008) Hodder Childrens 2008 US Dial Penguin.
Chronoptika series
Obsidian Mirror (2012) Hodder Childrens US Dial Penguin
The Box of Red Brocade (2013) Hodder Childrens (US title: Slanted Worlds, 2013 Dial Penguin).
The Door in the Moon (2015) Hodder Childrens (2016 US Dial Penguin)
The Speed of Darkness (2016) Hodder Childrens
The Clockwork Crow series
The Clockwork Crow (2018) Firefly Press
The Velvet Fox (2019) Firefly Press
The Midnight Swan (2020) Firefly Press
References
Pollinger Limited page on Catherine (accessed 24 August 2006).
External links
Catherine Fisher at Fantastic Fiction
Catherine Fisher profile at BBC Wales
1957 births
Living people
20th-century Welsh poets
21st-century Welsh poets
20th-century Welsh novelists
21st-century Welsh novelists
20th-century Welsh women writers
21st-century Welsh women writers
21st-century Welsh writers
Welsh children's writers
British women children's writers
Welsh fantasy writers
Academics of the University of Glamorgan
Writers from Newport, Wales
Date of birth missing (living people)
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Welsh women poets
Welsh archaeologists
British women archaeologists
British pamphleteers
Welsh women novelists