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Caitlin R. Kiernan
"Caitlín R. Kiernan (the R. stands for Rebekah) was born in Skerries, Ireland, north of Dublin, but was moved to the States as a small child, following the death of her birth-father. She grew up in places like Thibodaux, Louisiana and Jacksonville, Florida, before her mother settled in a small town near Birmingham, Alabama. Despite the country of her birth, Caitlín has often stressed her Southernness and its importance to her fiction and has rarely written about Ireland.
Caitlín left Birmingham briefly in the mid-eighties, attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she studied vertebrate paleontology. Back in Birmingham, she held the position of Associate Paleontologist at the now-defunct Red Mountain Museum. In 1988, she described and named Selmasaurus russelli, a new type of mosasaur from Alabama (mosasaurs were giant marine lizards that thrived near the end of the Mesozoic Era and became extinct along with the dinosaurs). Although writing consumes most of her time these days, Caitlín is still active in paleontology, and her research has been published in the Journal of Paleontology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, among others.
Caitlín has been interested in writing dark fiction since childhood. She grew up reading fantasists like Ray Bradbury, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Bram Stoker, Richard Adams, and Stephen R. Donaldson. But it wasn't until college, when she discovered the Modernists, especially the works of James Joyce, that she became seriously interested in writing. The Modernists, along with the late Victorians and the Romantics, continue to serve as an important influence on her work." (Author's Website)
Bibliography:
Daughter of Hounds
Candles For Elizabeth
From Weird And Distant
Shores
In The Garden Of
Poisonous Flowers
Low Red Moon
Silk
Tales Of Pain And Wonder
Threshold
Wrong Things
Author's Website:
http://www.caitlin-r-kiernan.com/
Last Updated:
09 March 2007
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Last Updated:
09 March 2007
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