C.S.E. Cooney - Bone Swans - Stories

I cannot leave off without mentioning the names of these my beloved community of writers, readers, musicians, and artists (and not even as many of them as I’d like): Samu Rahn, Miriam Mikiel Grill, Ysabeau Wilce, Tiffany Trent, Sharon Shinn, Katie Redding, Jeanine Vaughn, Shveta Thakrar, Julia Rios, Karen Meisner, Dominik Parisien, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Jack Hanlon, Francesca Forrest, Jennifer Crow, Jessica Wick, and S. J. Tucker.

For the support of my family, who always told me to “follow my bliss”—in those words and in so many others—I can but be wholly indebted. Particularly I wish to mention again Sita Aluna, Rory Cooney, Terry Donohoo, Louise Riedel, Rose DeFer, and my brothers Joel, Aidan, Jeremy, Declan, and Desmond.

Last but not least (in fact, the opposite), thank you, Mike and Anita Allen. Without you, (ha! Literally) this book would not have been possible.

C. S. E. Cooney is a Rhode Island writer who lives across the street from a Victorian strolling park. She is the author of The Breaker Queen and The Two Paupers (Books One and Two of the Dark Breakers trilogy), The Witch in the Almond Tree , How To Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes , and Jack o’ the Hills . She won the 2011 Rhysling Award for her story-poem “The Sea King’s Second Bride.”

Other examples of her work can be found in Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011, 2012, 2014), The Nebula Awards Showcase (2013), The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures (2014), The Moment of Change, Black Gate , Uncanny , Strange Horizons, Apex, GigaNotoSaurus, Subterranean, Ideomancer, Clockwork Phoenix, Steam-Powered II: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories, The Book of Dead Things, Cabinet des Fées, Stone Telling, Goblin Fruit, and Mythic Delirium .

Her website is http://csecooney.com.