Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest in 2009
Born	(1975-07-30)July 30, 1975 (age 50) Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Education	Forest Lake Academy Southern Adventist University (BA) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (MA)
Genre	Horror,Southern Gothic,Science fiction,steampunk
Notable works	Boneshaker,Maplecroft
Website
cheriepriest.com

Cherie Priest (born July 30, 1975) is an Americannovelist andblogger living inSeattle, Washington.

Priest is a Florida native, born inTampa in 1975.^[1] She graduated fromForest Lake Academy, aSeventh-day Adventist boarding school inApopka,Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such asFlorida,Texas,Kentucky, andTennessee. She moved around regularly until college. In 1998 she graduated with aB.A. fromSouthern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, and in 2001 she left theUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga with anM.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing.^[1]

Priest lived inChattanooga for twelve years and it is there she both set her Eden Moore series and wrote the first two books.^[2] In May 2012, she and her husband Aric Annear^[1] moved back to Tennessee from Seattle, Washington. In 2017, she returned to live in Seattle.

Although Priest was baptized into theSeventh-day Adventist Church, she has no further contact with the church and claims no religious affiliation.^[3][4]

In addition to her novels, Priest was a reviewer for theBram Stoker Award-winning websiteChiaroscuro and currently is a staff member ofSubterranean Press. She is a regular attendee and panelist atDragonCon and several other genre conventions around the country such asPenguicon andSteamcon. She is also known for giving talks and writing articles about the hobby ofurban exploration.^[5]

• In March 2006, she won theLulu Blooker Prize for Fiction forFour and Twenty Blackbirds (Tor Books, 2005), becoming the first ever winner in that category.^[6]
• Her 2006 short story "Wishbones" was part of theAegri Somnia anthology byApex Digest, which was nominated for aBram Stoker Award.^[7]
• Her 2009 novelBoneshaker won aPacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award^[8]
• TheScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced thatBoneshaker made the final ballot for the 2009Nebula Award for Best Novel.^[9]
• Boneshaker was a 2010Hugo Award nominee in theBest Novel category.^[10]
• Boneshaker won the 2010Locus Award in theBest Science Fiction Novel category.^[11]

• Grave Reservations, 2021,Atria Books.ISBN 9781982168902.^[12]
• Flight Risk, 2022,Atria Books.ISBN 9781982168926.^[13]

• Maplecroft, 2014,Roc Books.ISBN 9780451466976.
• Chapelwood, 2015,Roc Books.ISBN 9780451466983.

• Four and Twenty Blackbirds,
  • Original edition, 2003,Marietta Publishing.ISBN 978-1-892669-22-3.
  • Re-released in a revised, much expanded, edition, 2005,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-1308-9.
  • Issued in the United Kingdom, February 2012,Titan Books.ISBN 9780857687722
• Wings to the Kingdom, October 2006,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-1309-6.
  • Issued in the United Kingdom, May 2012,Titan Books.ISBN 9780857687739
• Not Flesh Nor Feathers, 2007,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-1310-2.
  • Publishers Weekly described this book as "a bit talky" but also as Cherie Priest's "most assured outing yet."^[14]

• Boneshaker, October 2009,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-1841-1.
• Clementine, July 2010,Subterranean Press.ISBN 978-1-59606-308-2.
• Dreadnought, September 2010,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-2578-5.
• Ganymede, September 2011,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-2946-2.
• The Inexplicables, November 2012, Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-2947-9.
• Fiddlehead, November 2013, Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-3407-7^[15]
• Jacaranda, January 2015, Subterranean Press.^[16]

• Bloodshot, January 2011,^[17]Bantam Spectra.ISBN 978-0-345-52060-9.
  • Issued in the United Kingdom, July 2011,Titan Books.ISBN 9780857686459.
• Hellbent, September 6, 2011,Bantam Spectra.ISBN 978-0-345-52062-3.
  • Issued in the United Kingdom, September 2011,Titan Books.ISBN 9780857686466.

The Cheshire Red Reports concern a vampire thief called Raylene Pendle. Although she prefers to work alone, she acquires a group of misfits who join her in her adventures. These are two young children, a blind vampire and an ex-Navy Seal/Drag Queen.Bloodshot also features the world ofurban exploration. The Cheshire Red reports were originally only commissioned as a two book series. There is the possibility of a third book in this series provisionally entitledSawbones if sufficient interest is expressed.^[18]

• Dreadful Skin, March 2007,Subterranean Press.ISBN 978-1-59606-080-7.
• Fathom, December 2008,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-7653-1840-4.
• Those Who Went Remain There Still, December 2008,Subterranean Press.ISBN 978-1-59606-179-8.
• I Am Princess X, May 2015,Arthur A. Levine Books.ISBN 978-0-545-62085-7.
• The Family Plot, September 2016,Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-76537-824-8
• Brimstone, April 2017,Ace.ISBN 978-1-10199-073-5.
• The Agony House, September 2018,Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic.ISBN 978-0-545-93429-9.^[19]
• The Toll, July 2019, Tor Books.ISBN 978-0-76537-823-1
• Holy Terror (short works collection), 2022, Subterranean PressISBN 978-1-64524-055-6
  • Includes "The October Devotion", "The Immigrant", "Reluctance", "Clementine", "The Wreck of the Mary Byrd", and "Talking in Circles".
• Cinderwich, June 2024, Apex Book CompanyISBN 978-1-95576-520-6
• The Drowning House, July 2024, SourcebooksISBN 978-1-72829-282-3
• It Was Her House First, July 2025, SourcebooksISBN 978-1-72829-285-4

• 'The Heavy', a short story. Published inApex Digest Issue #12, March 2008.
• 'The Target Audience', a short story. Published inNoctem Aeternus January, 2008.
• 'Following Piper', a short story. Published inSubterranean Digest issue #6.
• 'Little Wards', a short story. Published inThe Edge of Propinquity. June 2006
• 'The Immigrant', a short story, part ofMythic #2, October 2006Mythic Delirium Books.ISBN 978-0-8095-5756-1
• 'Bad Sushi', a short story. Published inApex Digest, Issue #10. Republished in "New Cthulhu", ed. Paula Guran, November 2011.
• 'Wishbones', a short story, part ofAegri Somnia. December 2006Apex Digest.ISBN 978-0-9788676-2-1 (paperback),ISBN 978-0-9788676-3-8 (hardback)
• 'Tanglefoot', a short story, published online bySubterranean Press, 2009. First release of the Clockwork Century universe.^[20][21]
• 'Hell's Bells,'Grant’s Pass,Morrigan Books 2009
• 'The Catastrophe Box', a short storySon of Retro Pulp Tales,Subterranean Press 2010
• 'Reluctance', a short story, part of "The Mammoth Book of Steampunk", first published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012

• 'Steampunk Wardrobe Customizations for the Lazy, the Poor, or the Crafty,'Tor, October 2009
• 'Steampunk for Beginners,'BookBrowse, October 2009
• 'Growing up Poe,'Weird Tales, January 2009

• Dead Space 3 (2013)^[22]

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