Cherie Priest

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Cherie Priest (2009)

Cherie Melinda Priest (born July 30, 1975 in Tampa , Florida ) is an American horror and fantasy writer .

Life

Priest graduated from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee , where she earned a bachelor's degree in English, and from the University of Tennessee , Chattanooga , where she graduated with a master's degree in public speaking and writing in 2001 .

In 2006 Priest moved from Chattanooga to Seattle on the northwest coast, but found after 6 years that she hadn't made her home and returned to Tennessee in 2012.

Priest has been married to long-time partner Avic Annear since March 2006. You have been living in Seattle again since 2017. She works as a publishing assistant for Subterranean Press , contributing to magazines and websites.

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2003 appeared Priests first novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds , at the same time the first band of Southern Gothic - trilogy about the protagonist Eden Moore. Eden is a young woman who can see ghosts. The mother died in childbirth and Eden grew up with her Aunt Lulu, the keeper of a series of dire family secrets that Eden tries to uncover while she is pursued by a mad cousin who tries to kill her.

In 2009 Boneshaker , the first volume in the Clockwork Century series of steampunk novels, was released. The novel is set in Seattle around 1880. Years earlier, the test of the Boneshaker , a revolutionary drill, caused a disaster in which parts of the city center were destroyed. Since then, a poisonous gas has been emitted there that turns people into living corpses. To prevent the gas from spreading, a high wall was built around the affected area. When the inventor's son breaks in to look for evidence in the father's former house to restore his reputation, he finds himself trapped in the city center with its dangerous residents. Meanwhile, his mother goes on a rescue mission. The background to the Clockwork Century series is an alternative story in the USA , in which the civil war dragged on for decades, Texas continues to be independent and more or less crazy inventors with gears and clockwork mechanisms are doing amazing things.

Boneshaker received the Locus Award , was nominated for the Nebula Award and the follow-up novels Dreadnought and Ganymede were also awarded.

Priest's works have so far been translated into 10 languages. Boneshaker alone has been translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech, Turkish and Japanese. German translations are of Boneshaker and I Am Princess X ago.

Awards

  • 2006: Lulu Blooker Prize in the Fiction category for the novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds
  • 2010: Locus Award and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for the Roman Boneshaker
  • 2011: Endeavor Award for the novel Dreadnought
  • 2012: Airship Award for Written Fiction for the novel Ganymede
  • 2016: Northbrook Junior High Book Award and Westchester Fiction Award for the novel I Am Princess X

bibliography

Series

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Eden Moore (novel trilogy)
  • 1 Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2003, extended version 2005)
  • 2 Wings to the Kingdom (2006)
  • 3 Not Flesh Nor Feathers (2007)
Kilgore Jones (short stories)
  • The Heavy (2008)
  • Heavy Metal (2014)
Clockwork Century
  • 1 boneshaker (2009)
  • 2 Clementines (2010)
  • 3 Dreadnought (2010)
  • 4 Ganymede (2011)
  • 5 The Inexplicables (2012)
  • 6 Fiddlehead (2013)

Short stories:

  • Tanglefoot (2008)
  • Jacaranda (2014)
Cheshire Red Reports
  • 1 Bloodshot (2011)
  • 2 Hellbent (2011)
The Borden Dispatches
  • 1 Maplecroft (2014)
  • 2 Chapelwood (2015)

Novels

  • Dreadful Skin (2007)
  • Those Who Went Remain There Still (2008)
  • Fathom (2008)
  • I Am Princess X (2015)
  • The Family Plot (2016)
  • Brimstone (2017)
  • Indigo (2017, with Kelley Armstrong, Christopher Golden, Charlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, James A. Moore, Mark Morris and Kat Richardson)
  • Mississippi Roll (2017, Wild Cards # 24, with Stephen Leigh, David D. Levine, John J. Miller, Kevin Andrew Murphy and Carrie Vaughn)
  • The Agony House (2018)

Short stories

  • Horror at Snodgrass Hill (2003)
  • The October Devotion (2006)
  • 10 Archetypes in 2000 Words (2006)
  • The Immigrant (2006)
  • Wishbones (2006)
  • Following Piper (2007)
  • Bad Sushi (2007)
  • The Target Audience (2008)
  • Catastrophe Box (2009)
  • Hell's Bells (2009)
  • Reluctance (2010)
  • Addison Howell and the Clockroach (2011)
  • The Rat Race (2011)
  • The Button Man and the Murder Tree (2013)
  • The Knoxville Girl (2016)
  • The Mermaid Aquarium: Weeki Wachee Springs, 1951 (2016)
  • Good Night, Prison Kings (2017)
  • Mother Jones and the Nasty Eclipse (2018)

literature

Interviews

Web links

Commons : Cherie Priest  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Cherie Priest  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cherie Priest: Pornography & War . In: Locus # 596 (September 2010; excerpts , accessed December 27, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b The Haunt - About Me , accessed December 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Marshall Payne: Nebula Awards Interview: Cherie Priest . November 22, 2010, accessed December 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c The Haunt - Bibliography / Awards , accessed December 27, 2018.
  5. ↑ The Blooker Winners in Full , accessed December 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ Cherie Priest's Boneshaker Wins PNBA Award , announcement January 12, 2010 in Locus , accessed December 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Priest, Cherie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priest, Cherie Melinda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampa , Florida