Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “Tideline”, and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “Shoggoths in Bloom”. She is one of a small number of writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (the others include C. J. Cherryh, Orson Scott Card, Spider Robinson, Ted Chiang and Mary Robinette Kowal).
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Carnival (November 2006, Bantam Spectra)
Undertow (August 2007, Bantam Spectra)
Bone and Jewel Creatures (novella) (2010, Subterranean Press)
The Jenny Casey trilogy
Hammered (January 2005, Bantam Spectra)
Scardown (July 2005, Bantam Spectra)
Worldwired (November 2005, Bantam Spectra)
The Promethean Age
Blood and Iron (June 2006, ROC)
Whiskey and Water (July 2007, ROC)
The Stratford Man:
Volume I: Ink and Steel (July 2008, ROC)
Volume II: Hell and Earth (August 2008, ROC)
One Eyed Jack (November 2013, Prime Books)
Jacob’s Ladder trilogy
Dust (December 2007, Spectra)
Chill (February 2010, Spectra)
Grail (February 2011, Spectra)
The Edda of Burdens
All the Windwracked Stars (November 2008, Tor Books)
By the Mountain Bound (November 2009, Tor Books)
The Sea thy Mistress (February 2011, Tor)
The Iskryne series
A Companion to Wolves, co-written with Sarah Monette (October 2007, Tor Books)
The Tempering of Men, co-written with Sarah Monette (August 2011, Tor Books)
An Apprentice to Elves, co-written with Sarah Monette (June 25, 2015, Tor Books)
New Amsterdam series
New Amsterdam (May 2007, Subterranean Press)
Seven for a Secret (novella; March 2009, Subterranean Press)
The White City (novella; 2011, Subterranean Press)
Ad Eternum (novella; February 2012, Subterranean Press)
Garrett Investigates (November 2012, Subterranean Press)
Eternal Sky Trilogy
Range of Ghosts (March 2012, Tor Books)
Shattered Pillars (2013, Tor Books)
Steles of the Sky (2014, Tor Books)
The Lotus Kingdoms
The Stone in the Skull (2017, Tor Books)
The Red-Stained Wings (2019, Tor Books)
The Origin of Storms (2022, Tor Books)
Karen Memory
Karen Memory (2015, Tor-Forge)
Stone Mad (2018, Tor-Forge)
White Space
Ancestral Night (2018, Gallery / Saga Press)
Machine (2020, Gallery / Saga Press)
Short fiction Collections
The Chains That You Refuse (May 2006, Night Shade Books)
Shoggoths in Bloom (October 2012, Prime Books)