Kat Howard Explained

Kat Howard is an American author and editor. Her stories have been published in the anthologies Stories (edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio), and Oz Reimagined (based on L. Frank Baum's characters). She is also a contributor to magazines such as Lightspeed, Subterranean, Uncanny Magazine and Apex.^{[1] [2]} She attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 2008.^[3] She is a 2018 recipient of the Alex Awards.

Bibliography

Short story collections

• A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories (Gallery / Saga Press, 2019)

Novels and novellas

• The End of the Sentence (Subterranean Press, 2014), co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, "a fairytale of ghosts and guilt, literary horror blended with the visuals of Jean Cocteau, failed executions, shapeshifting goblins, and magical blacksmithery."^[4]
• Roses and Rot (S&S/Saga, 2016)^[5]
• An Unkindness of Magicians (Saga, 2017)^{[6] [7] [8]}

Selected short stories

• "All Of Our Past Places", at The Journal of Unlikely Cartography
• "To Hold the Mirror", Interfictions
• "Breaking the Frame", Lightspeed
• "Hath no Fury", Subterranean Press

Awards

In addition to several World Fantasy Award nominations, her work has received the following awards and recognitions:

• NPR Best Book of 2014: The End of the Sentence, co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley^[9]
• Locus Award for Best First Novel finalist: Roses and Rot
• NPR Best Book of 2017: An Unkindness of Magicians
• Alex Award, 2018: An Unkindness of Magicians

Notes and References

1. https://litreactor.com/team/kat-howard Kat Howard – Instructor
2. http://www.therejectionist.com/2013/03/a-conversation-with-kat-howard.html A conversation with Kat Howard
3. http://clarion.ucsd.edu/san-diego-alumni/ List of San Diego Alumni of the Clarion Writers Workshop
4. Web site: THE END OF THE SENTENCE. www.subterraneanpress.com. Subterranean Press. February 16, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150216041236/https://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/the_end_of_the_sentence. February 16, 2015. mdy-all.
5. http://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/summer-reads-2016/sf-fantasy-horror#book/book-3 Best Summer Books 2016
6. http://www.tor.com/2016/12/02/revealing-kat-howards-an-unkindness-of-magicians/ Revealing Kat Howard’s An Unkindness of Magicians
7. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/kat-howard/roses-and-rot.htm Roses and Rot by Kat Howard
8. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4814-5116-1 Roses and Rot
9. Web site: Best Books of 2014. www.npr.org. National Public Radio. February 16, 2015.