C. S. E. Cooney

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Claire Suzanne Elizabeth Cooney (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 and the World Fantasy Award—Collection for her collection Bone Swans in 2016.

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, 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.

In addition to writing, she is a poet, a musician, an actor, and audiobook narrator.

Works

Collections

• 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

Novellas

• The Big Bah-Ha (April 2010) ISBN 978-0-9798081-1-1
• Jack O' the Hills (Feb 2011) ISBN 978-1-907881-06-0

Series

Dark Breakers

• The Breaker Queen (Oct 2014)
• The Two Paupers (Jan 2015)
• Desdemona and the Deep (July 2019) ISBN 978-1-250-22983-0

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)
• "Life on the Sun" from Bone Swans (2013)
• "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 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 (forthcoming Dec 2017)
• "Or Perhaps Up" from Where the Veil is Thin (2020)

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)

Musical albums

• Alecto! Alecto! (as Brimstone Rhine) (July 2015)
• Headless Bride (as Brimstone Rhine) (Jan 2016)

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