
C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015). Her work includes the novella Desdemona and the Deep (Tor.com 2019), three albums: Alecto! Alecto!, The Headless Bride, and Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir, and a poetry collection: How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes. The latter features her 2011 Rhysling Award-winning “The Sea King’s Second Bride.” Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the Sword and Sonnet anthology, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones, E. Catherine Tobler, Mike Allen’s Clockwork Phoenix 3 and 5, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 12, Lightspeed Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex, Uncanny Magazine, Black Gate, Papaveria Press, GigaNotoSaurus, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, and elsewhere.
Series
Books

Jack o' the Hills
2011

The Witch in the Almond Tree and Other Stories
2020

Bone Swans
2015

How to Flirt in Faerieland & Other Wild Rhymes
2012

Saint Death's Herald
2025

The Two Paupers
2015

Desdemona and the Deep
2019

Saint Death's Daughter
2022

The Bone Swans of Amandale
2015

The Breaker Queen
2014

How the Milkmaid Struck a Bargain With the Crooked One
2013

The Big Bah-Ha
2010

The Twice-Drowned Saint
2023

The Witch in the Almond Tree
2014

Where the Veil Is Thin
2020

Martyr's Gem
2013

Mad Hatters and March Hares
2017

Dark Breakers
2022