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Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan in 2016
Born	1980 (age 44–45)
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University Indiana University Bloomington
Period	2004–present
Genre	Fantasy,Non-fiction
Website
www.swantower.com

Marie Brennan is the pseudonym ofBryn Neuenschwander, an Americanfantasy author. Her works include theDoppelganger duology (Doppelganger and its sequelWarrior and Witch); theOnyx Court series; theMemoirs of Lady Trent series; and numerous short stories.

The first of theOnyx Court novels,Midnight Never Come, published on May 1, 2008 in the United Kingdom, and June 1, 2008 in the United States, received a four star-review fromSFX.^[1] TheLady Trent series was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018.^[2]

As an undergraduate atHarvard University, Neuenschwander served as co-chair of theHarvard–Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. After graduating from Harvard, she pursued graduate studies atIndiana University Bloomington, studyingfolklore andanthropology; in 2008 she left graduate school without completing her PhD in order to pursue writing full-time.^[3]

• Doppelganger (2006) (reissued asWarrior in 2008)
• Warrior and Witch (2006) (reissued asWitch in 2008)

• In London's Shadow (Onyx Court Omnibus) (2016)

1. Midnight Never Come (2008)
2. In Ashes Lie (2009)
3. A Star Shall Fall (2010)
4. With Fate Conspire (2011)

1. A Natural History of Dragons (2013)
2. The Tropic of Serpents (2014)
3. Voyage of the Basilisk (2015)
4. In the Labyrinth of Drakes (2016)
5. Within the Sanctuary of Wings (2017)

• "From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review" (short story) (2016)
• "On the Impurity of Dragon-kind" (short story) (2019)
• "The Long Fall" (described by Brennan as a piece of "authorial fanfic") (2020)
• Turning Darkness into Light (spinoff novel) (2019)

(writing with Alyc Helms as M. A. Carrick)

1. The Mask of Mirrors (2021)
2. The Liar's Knot (2021)
3. Labyrinth’s Heart (2023)

Framework, 1 new story, and short stories freely available on Web exceptInto the Wind:

1. Driftwood (2009,Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2009)
2. A Heretic By Degrees (2008,Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, December 2008)
3. Into the Wind (2017,Children of a Different Sky, edited by Alma Alexander)
4. The Ascent of Unreason (2021,Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2012)
5. Remembering Light (2010,Beneath Ceaseless Skies, June 2010)
6. Smiling at the End of the World (no date found, www.swantower.com)
7. The God of Driftwood (new)

1. "Cold-Forged Flame" (September, 2016)
2. "Lightning in the Blood" (May, 2017)

• White Shadow (2004)
• The Princess and the . . . (2005)
• Silence, Before the Horn (2005)
• Shadows' Bride (2005)
• The Twa Corbies (2005)
• For the Fairest (2005)
• Sing for Me (2006)
• The Wood, the Bridge, the House (2006)
• Such as Dreams Are Made Of (2006)
• Execution Morning (Glorifying Terrorism, 2007)
• A Thousand Souls (2007)
• But Who Shall Lead the Dance? (2007)
• Selection (2007)
• Nine Sketches, in Charcoal and Blood (2007)
• Lost Soul (2008)
• Kiss of Life (2008)
• Never After: Twelve Tales
• Beggar's Blessing
• The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe
• A Mask of Flesh
• Once a Goddess
• The Gospel of Nachash

• Mesoamerican Calendars (2004)
• The Logic of Sacrifice (2004)
• Bull-Leaping in Bronze Age Crete (2005)
• Ireland's Ancient Code (2005)
• That Fairy-Tale Feel: A Folkloric Approach to Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel (2006)

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• Profile atTor.com
• Profile atMacmillan

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• Living people
• 21st-century American novelists
• American fantasy writers
• American women short story writers
• American women novelists
• Harvard University alumni
• Indiana University Bloomington alumni
• American women science fiction and fantasy writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• 21st-century American short story writers

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