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Kathleen Tierney

(1964- )
Kathleen Tierney is a pseudonym for Caitlín R. Kiernan. Caitlín R. Kiernan was born near Dublin, Ireland, but has spent most of her life in the southeastern United States. In college, she studied zoology, geology, and palaeontology, and has been employed as a vertebrate palaeontologist and college-level biology instructor. She is a four-time nominee for the World Fantasy Award and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award. Besides her speculative fiction, she publishes scientific papers and comic books. She fronted the goth-rock band Death’s Little Sister in the late 1990s. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Visit Caitlín R. Kiernan’s website.

Blood Oranges: Caitlín R. Kiernan tries her hand at urban fantasy

Blood Oranges by Kathleen Tierney

Tired of vampires? Or werewolves? Or girls who can dispatch the critters with no effort, swinging a stake through the heart as if it were a knife through butter? Yeah, me too. But give me a vampire who is a werewolf who is also a young female human hunter of vampires and werewolves, and we’re in business. Make her the unreliable, foul-mouthed narrator of her own story, and you’ve got Kathleen Tierney’s Siobhan Quinn in her first adventure, Blood Oranges.

“Kathleen Tierney” is Caitlín R. Kiernan, one of the finest writers of horror fiction working today, trying her hand at urban fantasy. Tierney isn’t satisfied with a cookie cutter approach to the genre, however; she wants to make it her own. So her heroine is a teen who ran away from home at the age of 12 for very good reasons. Quinn has live... Read More

February 14th, 2013. ´s rating: | , | SFF Reviews | 2 comments
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