Katherine Addison

**Katherine Addison** is the pseudonym of **Sarah Elizabeth Monette**, short story writer and novelist, and author of *The Chronicles of Osreth*.

## Life

"Sarah Monette was born Sarah Elizabeth Smith on November 25, 1974" in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. "She studied Classics, English, and French at Case Western Reserve University, graduating *summa cum laude* in 1996, and earned her Master’s in 1997 and her Ph.D. in English literature in 2004, both at the University of Wisconsin. Her specialty is Renaissance drama, and her dissertation was about revenge tragedies. She married Allen Monette in 1998.

. . . Monette’s first novel *Mélusine* (2005) was a Tiptree and Crawford nominee, and began [the] fantasy series *The Doctrine of Labyrinths*, which continued in *The Virtu* (2006), *The Mirador* (2007), and *Corambis* (2009). She co-wrote the *Iskryne* fantasy novels . . . with Elizabeth Bear". She wrote *The Goblin Emperor* around the time she was writing *The Mirador* or *Corambis*. Ace Books, the publisher of *Doctrine of Labyrinths*, bungled the release of the books in numerous ways, which messed up Monette's publishing numbers, on top of a publishing crash and a delay in completing the manuscript for *Corambis*, and ultimately led to the publishing relationship ending.

After *The Doctrine of Labyrinths*, Tor was interested in publishing Monette's next novel, but noted that Monette would need a pseudonym to avoid issues with Monette's prior publishing numbers. Monette agreed, as long as she could be open about it. She began publishing her works as Katherine Addison. *The Goblin Emperor* won the 2015 "Locus Award for best fantasy novel and [was] a finalist for Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards."

"In 2006 and 2007, Monette was a finalist for the Campbell Award for best new writer. She lives near Madison, Wisconsin, USA."

## Bibliography

#### Series

* ***The Doctrine of Labyrinths* (as Sarah Monette)**
	+ *Mélusine* (2005)
	+ *The Virtu* (2006)
	+ *The Mirador* (2007)
	+ *Corambis* (2009)
* ***Iskyrne* (with Elizabeth Bear)**
	+ *A Companion to Wolves* (2007)
	+ *The Tempering of Men* (2011)
	+ *An Apprentice to Elves* (2015)
* ***The Chronicles of Osreth*** **(as Katherine Addison)**
	+ *The Goblin Emperor* (2014)
	+ *The Witness for the Dead* (2021)
		- *Lora Selezh* (short story)
	+ *Min Zemerin's Plan* (short story) (2022)
	+ *The Grief of Stones* (2022)
	+ *The Tomb of Dragons* (upcoming)

#### Novellas

* *The Cobbler's Boy* (with Elizabeth Bear) (2018)
* *A Theory of Haunting* (2023)
* *The Kingdom of Darkness* (2023)

#### Short Story Collections

* *The Queen in Winter* (contributor) (February, 2006)
* *The Bone Key* (2007)
* *Fast Ships, Black Sails* (contributor) (2008)
* *Last Drink Bird Head* (contributor) (2009)
* *Unnatural Creatures* (2011)
* *Somewhere Beneath Those Waves* (2011)

#### Short Fiction

* **Kyle Murchison Booth (mostly collected in *The Bone Key*)**
	+ *The Wall of Clouds* (*Alchemy Magazine* 1, December 2003)
	+ *The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox* (*Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries* 7, May 2004)
	+ *The Venebretti Necklace* (*Alchemy Magazine* 2, September 2004)
	+ *Bringing Helena Back* (*All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society* 35, February 2004)
	+ *The Green Glass Paperweight* (*Tales of the Unanticipated* 25, August 2004)
	+ *Wait for Me* (*Naked Snake Online*, September 2004)
	+ *Elegy for a Demon Lover* (*Tales of the Unanticipated* 26, October 2005)
	+ *Drowning Palmer* (*All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society* 41, February 2006)
	+ *The Bone Key* (*SAY... What's the Combination?*, May 2007)
	+ *Listening to Bone* (*The Bone Key*, Prime Books, 2007)
	+ *The World Without Sleep* (*Postscripts*, Spring 2008)
	+ *The Yellow Dressing Gown* (2008)
	+ *The Replacement* (2008)
	+ *White Charles* (2009)
	+ *To Die for Moonlight* (2013)
	+ *The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth* (2018)
	+ *The Haunting of Dr. Claudius Winterson (Uncanny Magazine Issue 44)* (2022)
	+ *A Theory of Haunting* (2023)
* **Boojum**
	+ *Boojum* (with Elizabeth Bear) (*Fast Ships, Black Sails*, eds. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books, 2008)
	+ *Mongoose* (with Elizabeth Bear) (2009)
	+ *The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward* (with Elizabeth Bear) (2012)
* **Other**
	+ *Three Letters from the Queen of Elflands* (*Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet* #11, November 2002)
	+ *Queen of Swords* (*Alienskin Magazine* #2.4, November 2003)
	+ *Sidhe Tigers* (*Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet* #13, November 2003)
	+ *Straw* (*Strange Horizons* #28, June 2004)
	+ *The Half-Sister* (*Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet* #15, January 2005)
	+ *The Séance at Chisholm End* (*Alchemy Magazine* #3, January 2006)
	+ *A Gift of Wings* (*The Queen in Winter* Ace Books, 2006)
	+ *The Ile of Dogges* (with Elizabeth Bear) (*Aeon* #7, May 2006)
	+ *A Night in Electric Squidland* (Lone Star Stories #15, June 2006)
	+ *Katabasis: Seraphic Trains* (*Tales of the Unanticipated* #27, July 2006)
	+ *National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West* (*Fictitious Force* #2, July 2006)
	+ *Draco campestris* (*Strange Horizons*, August 7, 2006)
	+ *Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day* (*Ideomancer* 5.3, September 2006)
	+ *A Light in Troy* (*Clarkesworld Magazine* #1, October 2006)
	+ *Amante Dorée* (*Paradox Magazine* #10, Winter 2006/07)
	+ *The Watcher in the Corners* (author's blog, *Notes from the Labyrinth*, April 23, 2007)
	+ *Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home* (*Fantasy Magazine*, July 2007)
	+ *Under the Beansidhe's Pillow* (*Lone Star Stories* #22, August 1, 2007)
	+ *Festival Lives, View 3: All God's Chillun Got Wings* (2008)
	+ *Darkness, as a Bride* (*Cemetery Dance* #58, February 2008)
	+ *Fiddleback Ferns* (*Flytrap* #9, June 2008)
	+ *Night Train: Heading West* (poem) (*The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection*, August 2008)
	+ *The Replacement* (*The Willows*, October 2008)
	+ *After the Dragon* (*Fantasy Magazine*, January 2010)
	+ *Ashes, Ashes* (*All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society*, 2011)
	+ *No Man's Land* (*Fictitious Force*, 2011)
	+ *The Devil in Gaylord's Creek* (2011)
	+ *Why Do You Linger?* (2011)
	+ *Absent from Felicity* (*Somewhere Beneath Those Waves*, 2011)
	+ *Impostors* (*Somewhere Beneath Those Waves*, 2011)
	+ *Blue Lace Agate* (2012)
	+ *Coyote Gets His Own Back* (2012)
	+ *The Half-Life of Angels* (2015)
	+ *Learning to See Dragons* (2017)
	+ *National Geographic on Assignment: The Unicorn Enclosure* (2017)
	+ *The Oracle of Abbey Road (Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night)* (2018)
	+ *Are You Warm, My Daughter? (Daily Science Fiction*) (2022)

## External Links

* Official Website
* The Sarah Monette Papers
* Patreon
* Twitter
* Instagram
* Dreamwidth

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Myman, Francesca. “Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library.” *Locus Magazine*, Sept. 2015, https://locusmag.com/2015/09/sarah-monette-the-key-to-the-library/. Accessed 28 Oct. 2022.
2. ↑ “Sarah Monette.” *Wikipedia*, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah\_Monette.