Monette’s latest novel is The Goblin Emperor (2014), written under open pseudonym Katherine Addison, winner of the Locus Award for best fantasy novel and a finalist for Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards. She also contributed to the shared-world Shadow Unit project with Bear, Will Shetterly, Emma Bull, and others.

She co-wrote the Iskryne fantasy novels A Companion to Wolves (2007) and The Tempering of Men (2011) with Elizabeth Bear An Apprentice to Elves is forthcoming. Monette’s first novel Mélusine (2005) was a Tiptree and Crawford nominee, and began fantasy series the Doctrine of Labyrinths, which continued in The Virtu (2006), The Mirador (2007), and Corambis (2009). Several stories about supernaturally-afflicted scholar Kyle Murchison Booth were collected in Shirley Jackson Award finalist The Bone Key (2007), and some non-Booth stories are gathered in Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (2011). Her short fiction has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Alchemy, Strange Horizons, and various other magazines. Monette’s first story, ‘‘Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland’’ (2002), won a Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Her specialty is Renaissance drama, and her dissertation was about revenge tragedies. in English literature in 2004, both at the University of Wisconsin. 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. Sarah Monette was born Sarah Elizabeth Smith on Novemin Oak Ridge TN, one of the ‘‘secret cities’’ of the Manhattan Project.

The Bone Key by Sarah Monette