Caitlín R. Kiernan

Overview:

  • Legal Name: Kiernan, Caitlín Rebekah
  • Place of Birth: Skerries, Dublin, Ireland
  • Date of Birth: May 26, 1964

Notes:

Caitlín R. Kiernan was born near Dublin, Ireland, but has lived most of her life in the southeastern U.S. Trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, she began writing fiction full time in 1992. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and many of them are collected in Candles for Elizabeth (Meisha Merlin Publishing), Tales of Pain and Wonder (Gauntlet Press), From Weird and Distant Shores (coming in 2001 from Subterreanean Press), and Wrong Things (cowritten with Poppy Z. Brite, also coming from Subterranean in 2001). Her first novel, Silk, won the International Horror Guild and Barnes and Noble Maiden Voyage awards for best first novel and was nominated for the Bram Stoker and British Fantasy awards. Caitlín writes DC Comic's The Dreaming, scheduled to end in March 2001 as Caitlín returns to prose full time. Her second novel, Threshold, will be published in the fall of 2001 by Penguin/ ROC. Caitlín lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Novels

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Short Fiction

Awards

  • 0000. Silk - International Horror Guild Award, Best First Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Threshold - International Horror Guild Award, Best Novel (Win)
  • 0000. Onion - International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. La Peau Verte - International Horror Guild Award, Best Intermediate Form (Win)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award, Gender-bending SF (Win)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Novel (Win)
  • 0000. The Prayer of Ninety Cats - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Win)
  • 0000. The Ape's Wife and Other Stories - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Win)
  • 0000. The Road of Needles - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Win)
  • 0000. The Maltese Unicorn - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Agents of Dreamland - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Red Tree - Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Goggles (c.1910) - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Antediluvian Homesick Blues - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ammonite Violin & Others - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Galápagos - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Daughter of Hounds - Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Dear Sweet Filthy World - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8) - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. M Is for Mars - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Murder of Angels - Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. To Charles Fort, with Love - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Cats of River Street (1925) - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Prayer of Ninety Cats - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. Riding the White Bull - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10) - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Dancy vs. the Pterosaur - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Black Helicopters - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Fake Plastic Trees - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ape's Wife and Other Stories - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Silk - Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Tidal Forces - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Dinosaur Tourist - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Black Helicopters - Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Silk - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a First Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. Tales of Pain and Wonder - International Horror Guild Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Road of Pins - International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Form (Nomination)
  • 0000. La Peau Verte - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Bainbridge - International Horror Guild Award, Best Intermediate Form (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Red Tree - World Fantasy Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Red Tree - Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. To Charles Fort, With Love - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. To Charles Fort, With Love - International Horror Guild Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. A is for Alien - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ammonite Violin & Others - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Galápagos - James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award, Gender-bending SF (Nomination)
  • 0000. As Red as Red - Shirley Jackson Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. Two Worlds and In Between - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Colliers' Venus (1893) - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - Nebula Award, Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - World Fantasy Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - British Fantasy Award, August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Ape's Wife and Other Stories - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination)
  • 0000. The Road of Needles - Seiun Award, Best Translated Short Story (Nomination)
  • 0000. Black Helicopters - World Fantasy Award, Best Novella (Nomination)
  • 0000. Agents of Dreamland - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination)
  • 0000. Tales of Pain and Wonder - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Tales of Pain and Wonder - British Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Persephone - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Tears Seven Times Salt - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889) - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. In the Water Works by Birmingham, Alabama 1888 - British Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Rest of the Wrong Thing - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Agents of Dreamland - British Science Fiction Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Galápagos - Hugo Award, Best Novelette (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. Tidal Forces - Hugo Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
  • 0000. The Drowning Girl - Hugo Award, Best Novel (Nomination below cutoff)

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