Introduction
Cherie Priest (born July 30, 1975) is an American novelist and blogger living in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Biography
Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. She moved around regularly until college. In 2001 she left the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing, and in 1998 she graduated with a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. Priest lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee for twelve years and it is there she both set her Eden Moore series and wrote the first two books. In May 2012, she and her husband Aric Annearmoved back to Tennessee from Seattle, Washington.
Although Priest was raised Seventh-day Adventist, she has no further contact with the church and claims no religious affiliation.
In addition to her novels, Priest was a reviewer for the Bram Stoker Award-winning website Chiaroscuro and currently is a staff member of Subterranean Press. She is a regular attendee and panelist at DragonCon and several other genre conventions around the country such as Penguicon and Steamcon. She is also known for giving talks and writing articles about the hobby of urban exploration.
Awards
- In March 2006, she won the Lulu Blooker Prize for Fiction for Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Tor Books, 2005), becoming the first ever winner in that category.
- Her 2006 short story "Wishbones" was part of the Aegri Somnia anthology by Apex Digest, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
- Her 2009 novel Boneshaker won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced that Boneshaker made the final ballot for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
- Boneshaker was a 2010 Hugo Award nominee in the Best Novel category.
- Boneshaker won the 2010 Locus Award in the Best Science Fiction Novel category.
- Lulu Blooker Blog: And the Winners are Archived November 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- "Past Bram Stoker Nominees & Winners". Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- "Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2010 Book Awards". Archived from the original on January 11, 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- "2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot". Retrieved February 19, 2010.
- "The 2010 Hugo and John W. Campbell Award Nominees". AussieCon 4. April 4, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
- "2010 Locus Awards Winners". 26 June 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2010.