Sara Stamey
Short Bio
Sara Stamey’s journeys include treasure hunting and teaching scuba in the Caribbean; backpacking worldwide; operating a nuclear reactor; owning a farm in Chile; and teaching creative writing at Western Washington University. Her novel THE ARIADNE CONNECTION won the Chanticleer Global Thriller Grand Prize; ISLANDS won the Hollywood Book Festival Genre Award; and PAUSE won First Place in the Chanticleer Somerset Awards.
Medium Bio
Sara Stamey’s journeys include treasure hunting and teaching scuba in the Caribbean; backpacking Greece and New Zealand; operating a nuclear reactor; and owning a farm in Southern Chile. Now returned to her native Pacific Northwest, she taught creative writing at Western Washington University. A lifelong outdoors enthusiast, she shares her creekside land with wild creatures and her cat, dog, and paleontologist husband Thor Hansen.
Sara’s SF novels with Berkley/Ace made the Locus Best New Novelists list. The Statesman Journal calls her award-winning ISLANDS “a superior mystery and suspense novel… a stomping, vivid ride.” Her near-future Greek islands thriller THE ARIADNE CONNECTION received the Chanticleer Global Thriller Grand Prize: “A rocket-paced thrill ride that delivers complex, engaging characters in a laser-sharp plot.”
Her novel PAUSE won First Place in the Chanticleer Somerset Awards. “Stamey’s lovely, inspiring, often funny novel… will touch the hearts of readers.” – Publishers Weekly Booklife
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2020 Somerset Award
First Place
The Somerset Book Awards looks for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes.
The Ariadne Connection
2017 Global Thriller
Grand Prize
The Global Thriller Book Awards ~ High Stakes Thriller and Lab Lit Fiction for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it.
The Ariadne Connection
2016 Cygnus Award
First Place
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction.
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