Cherie Priest

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-18

Cherie Priest is an American novelist of horror, Southern Gothic, steampunk and fantasy, born in Tampa, Florida, on 30 July 1975. She studied at Southern Adventist University and took a master's degree in rhetoric at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and lived in Chattanooga for twelve years, where she set her Eden Moore trilogy and wrote its first two books. Four and Twenty Blackbirds, her debut, won the first Lulu Blooker Prize for fiction in 2006. She went on to the Clockwork Century steampunk series, opened by Boneshaker (2009), and to the Cheshire Red Reports, the Borden Dispatches, the young-adult I Am Princess X and modern gothic novels such as The Family Plot, about thirty books and novellas in all. She has divided her time between Chattanooga and Seattle.

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Books

• Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2003) · Eden Moore Core Canon
• Wings to the Kingdom (2006) · Eden Moore Core Canon
• Not Flesh Nor Feathers (2007) · Eden Moore Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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