C. S. E. Cooney
Claire Suzanne Elizabeth Cooney[1] (born 12 December 1981) is an American writer of fantasy literature. She is best known for her fantasy poetry and short stories and has won the Rhysling Award for her poem "The Sea King's Second Bride" in 2011[2] and the World Fantasy Award—Collection for her collection Bone Swans in 2016.[3]
Biography
Cooney grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, before leaving after 20 years, lived in Chicago for 10 years, lived in Rhode Island for five years,[4] and then moved to Queens, New York, to live with her husband: author, professor, and game designer, Carlos Hernandez. During her time in Chicago, she attended Columbia College, where she received her degree in fiction writing with a minor in theater.[5]
In addition to writing, she is a poet, a musician, an actor, and audiobook narrator.
Awards and honors
In 2022, Kirkus Reviews named Saint Death's Daughter one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.[6]
Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | Bone Swans: Stories | World Fantasy Award—Collection | Won | [7][3] |
2017 | Clockwork Phoenix 5 | World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology | Shortlisted | [8] |
2018 | Sword and Sonnet | Aurealis Award for Best Anthology | Shortlisted | [9][10] |
2019 | Ditmar Award | Shortlisted | [11] | |
World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology | Shortlisted | [12] | ||
2020 | The Best of Uncanny | Locus Award for Best Anthology | Nominated | [13] |
Desdemona and the Deep | Locus Award for Best Novella | Nominated | [14] | |
2021 | The Book of Dragons | Locus Award for Best Anthology | Won | [15] |
World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology | Shortlisted | [16] |
Works
Novels
- Saint Death's Daughter (April 2022) ISBN 9781786184702
- The Twice-Drowned Saint (June 2020; in A Sinister Quartet, ed. Mike Allen, ISBN 9781732644038)
Novellas
- The Big Bah-Ha (April 2010) ISBN 978-0-9798081-1-1
- Desdemona and the Deep (July 2019) ISBN 978-1-250-22983-0
Collections
- Jack o' the Hills (February 2011) ISBN 978-1-907881-06-0
- How to Flirt in Faerieland & Other Wild Rhymes (May 2012) ISBN 978-1-907881-14-5
- Bone Swans (July 2015) ISBN 978-0-9889124-4-1
- The Witch in the Almond Tree and Other Stories (October 2020)
- Dark Breakers (February 2022) ISBN 978-1732644045
Series
Dark Breakers
- The Breaker Queen (Oct 2014)
- The Two Paupers (Jan 2015)
- Desdemona and the Deep (July 2019)
- "Salissay's Laundries" (February 2022)
- "Longergreen" (February 2022)
- "Susurra to the Moon" (February 2022)
The Witch's Garden
- The Witch in the Almond Tree (July 2014)
- Witch, Beast, Saint: an Erotic Fairy Tale (July 2014)
Short fiction
- "Lorelei's Little Deaths" from Book of Dead Things (2007)
- "Stone Shoes" from Subterranean Online, Summer (2007)
- "My Body Your Banquet" from Hell in the Heartland (2007)
- "Three Fancies from the Infernal Garden" from Subterranean Online, Winter (2009)
- "Braiding the Ghosts" from Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (2010)
- "Household Spirits" from Strange Horizons (2010)
- "Pale, and from a Sea-Wave Rising" from Apex Magazine (2010)
- "The Last Sophia" from Strange Horizons (2011)
- "The Canary of Candletown" from Steam-Powered II: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories (2011)
- "Zing Zou Zou" from Toasted Cake, #24 (2012)
- "Godmother Lizard" from Black Gate Magazine (2012)
- "Life on the Sun" from Black Gate Magazine (2012); reprinted in Bone Swans
- "Martyr's Gem" from Giganotosaurus (2013)
- "Ten Cigars" from Strange Horizons (2013)
- "How the Milkmaid Struck a Bargain With the Crooked One" from Giganotosaurus (2013)
- "The Bone Swans of Amandale" from Bone Swans (2015); reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas (2016)
- "The Book of May" (with Carlos Hernandez) from Clockwork Phoenix 5 (2016)
- "Though She Be But Little" from Uncanny Magazine (2017)
- "Lily-White & The Thief of Lesser Night" from Mad Hatters and March Hares (Dec 2017)
- "As for Peace, Call it Murder" from Sword and Sonnet (September 2018)
- "Or Perhaps Up" from Where the Veil is Thin (2020)
- "A Minnow, or Perhaps a Colossal Squid" with Carlos Hernandez, from Mermaids Monthly (April 2021)
- "From the Archives of the Museum of Eerie Skins: An Account" from Uncanny Magazine (July 2021)
- "Snowed In" with Carlos Hernandez, from The Bridge to Elsewhere, ed. Julia Rios and Alana Joli Abbott (2022)
Poems
- Sunday Ramble (2008)
- Cody Coyote (2009)
- Coyote Does Chicago (2009)
- Goblin Girls (2009)
- Ere One Can Say It Lightens (2010)
- She Who Rules the Bitter Reaches (2010)
- The Sea King's Second Bride (2010)
- Dogstar Men (2010)
- Postcards from Mars (2011)
- Sleeping Furies (2012)
- What Is Owed (2013)
- Voyage to a Distant Star (2013)
- Threnody (2013)
- Little Sally and the Bull Fiddle God (2014)
- Deep Bitch (2015)
- The Saga of Captain Jens (2015)
- Toujours Il Coûte Trop Cher (with Mike Allen) (2015)
- Ivan Icarus (2016)
- Foxgirl Cycle Song: 1 (2016)
- "The Wyrm of Lirr" (The Book of Dragons, ed. Jonathan Strahan, July 2020)
- "The Sole-Stitcher"(The Deadlands, November 2021)
- "Werewoman" (Strange Horizons, December 2021)
- "Nightworld," "Visiting Child," "The Ogress" (Ghoul II, March 2021)
Musical albums
- Alecto! Alecto! (as Brimstone Rhine) (July 2015)
- Headless Bride (as Brimstone Rhine) (Jan 2016)
- Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir (2018)
References
- ^ "About". C.S.E. Cooney. 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ Publications, Locus (20 July 2011). "Locus Online News » 2011 Rhysling Award Winners". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ a b "2016 World Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. October 30, 2016. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ "Interview: C.S.E. Cooney - Uncanny Magazine". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ "C.S.E. Cooney". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
- ^ "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2022". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "Announcing the 2016 World Fantasy Award Winners". Tor.com. 2016-10-30. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "2017 World Fantasy Awards". World Fantasy Convention. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ Newcombe, Ion (2019-02-20). "Aurealis Awards 2018 Finalists". The Australian Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "Aurealis Awards 2018 finalists announced | Books+Publishing". Books + Publishing. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ Newcombe, Ion (2019-06-11). "Ditmar Award Winners 2019". The Australian Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "Announcing the 2019 World Fantasy Award Finalists". Tor.com. 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "2020 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2020-06-27. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "2020 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. 2020-06-27. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "2021 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2021-06-26. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "2021 World Fantasy Award Winners". Locus Online. 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
External links
- C. S. E. Cooney at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Interview with C. S. E. Cooney by Uncanny Magazine
- C. S. E. Cooney from Metaphor to Manticore by Black Gate
- The Music of Brimstone Rhine
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