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Kat Howard

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Kat Howard is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror who lives and writes in Minnesota.

Her novella, The End of the Sentence, co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, was one of NPR's best books of 2014, and her debut novel, Roses and Rot was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. An Unkindness of Magicians was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, and won a 2018 Alex Award. Her short fiction collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, collects work that has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, performed as part of Selected Shorts, and anthologized in year’s best and best of volumes, as well as new pieces original to the collection. She was the writer for the first 18 issues of The Books of Magic, part of DC Comics' Sa
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Kat Howard Roses and Rot is a retelling of the "Tam Lin" ballad. So part of the idea came from there, part came from wanting to think about the relationship betw…moreRoses and Rot is a retelling of the "Tam Lin" ballad. So part of the idea came from there, part came from wanting to think about the relationship between sacrifice and art, and part came from wanting to tell a story about sisters. (less)
Kat Howard I love that my job is telling stories.
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“Becoming hurts.”
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“Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story”
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“This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.
You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.”
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