C.S.E. Cooney is the author of Jack o' the Hills (Papaveria Press, 2011) and The Big Bah-Ha (Drollerie Press, 2011). She has two fantasy novels in progress, replete with big wolves, doughty kitchen maids, hapless would-be assassins, and shapeshifters with identity issues. Her short story "Braiding the Ghosts," originally published in Clockwork Phoenix 3 (Mike Allen, editor) is to be reprinted in Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011. Three of her poems are in the running for the 2010 Rhysling Award.

Her stories have also appeared in the The Book of Dead Things and Hell in the Heartland anthologies. Other short fiction and poetry can be found in Apex Magazine, Subterranean, Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, Goblin Fruit, and Mythic Delirium. She has one short story forthcoming in Steam-Powered II, two adventure fantasy novellas in future issues of Black Gate Magazine, and a collection of poetry, How to Flirt in Fairyland and Other Wild Rhymes, in the works with Papaveria Press.

C.S.E. Cooney lives in Chicago (but not for too much longer), where she manages a used bookstore, edits Black Gate Magazine's blog, and keeps her own at http://csecooney.livejournal.com/.