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Catherynne M. Valente
Born	(1979-05-05)May 5, 1979 (age 46) Seattle,Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Poet novelist literary critic
Alma mater	UC San Diego University of Edinburgh
Genre	Postmodern,fantasy,mythpunk
Notable awards	James Tiptree Jr.(2006) Million Writers Award(2007) Rhysling Award(2007) Mythopoeic Award (2008) Andre Norton Award(2009) Locus Award(2014)
Website
catherynnemvalente.com

Catherynne Morgan Valente^[1] (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For herspeculative fiction novels she has won the annualJames Tiptree, Jr. Award,Andre Norton Award, andMythopoeic Award. Her short fiction has appeared inClarkesworld Magazine, the anthologiesSalon Fantastique andPaper Cities, and numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in theInternational Journal of the Humanities as well as other essay collections.

Valente's 2009 bookPalimpsest won theLambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror. Her two-volume seriesThe Orphan's Tales won the 2008Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume,The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, won the 2006James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the 2007World Fantasy Award. In 2012, Valente won threeLocus Awards: Best Novelette (White Lines on a Green Field), Best Novella (Silently and Very Fast) and Best YA Novel (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making).

In 2011, her children's novelThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making debuted at #8 onThe New York Times Best Seller list. Its sequel,The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, featured at #5 onTime's Best Fiction of 2012 list.

In 2009, she donated her archive to theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections atNorthern Illinois University.^[2]

She is a regular panelist on the podcastSF Squeecast.^[3]

Valente tours with singer/songwriterS. J. Tucker, who has composed albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts featuring dancers, aerial artists, art auctions featuring jewelry and paintings based on the novels, and other performances.^[4]

Valente is active in thecrowdfunding movement of online artists, and her novelThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making was the first^{[citation needed]} online, crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before traditional publication.^[5][6][7]

In a 2006 blog post, Valente coined the termmythpunk as a joke for describing her own and other works of challenging folklore-based fantasy.^[8] Valente and other critics and writers have discussed mythpunk as a subgenre ofmythic fiction that starts infolklore andmyth and adds elements ofpostmodernist literary techniques.^[9]

• The Labyrinth (2004)
• The Ice Puzzle (2004)
• Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams (2005)
• The Grass-Cutting Sword (2006)
• Palimpsest (2009)
• Deathless (2011)
• Radiance (2015)
• The Glass Town Game (McElderry, 2017). Illustrated byRebecca Green^[10][11][12]
• Space Opera (2018)
• Mass Effect: Andromeda Annihilation (2018)
• Comfort Me with Apples (2021)
• Space Oddity (2024)

• Silently and Very Fast (2011)
• Six-Gun Snow White (2013)
• Speak Easy (2015)^[13]
• The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
• The Past Is Red (2021)

The Orphan's Tales

• The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) (October 2006)
  • Book of the Steppe
  • Book of the Sea
• The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (vol. 2) (October 2007)
  • Book of the Storm
  • Book of the Scald

A Dirge for Prester John

Published byNight Shade Books:

• The Habitation of the Blessed (2010)
• The Folded World (2011)

Fairyland

Published byFeiwel & Friends:

• Prequel:The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While^[14] (2011)
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011) started out in 2009 as a crowdfunded middle-grade online novel (originally, a fictional children's book inPalimpsest).^[15]
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (2012)
• The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two(2013)
• The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (2015)
• The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (2016)

• This Is My Letter to the World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One (2010)
• Ventriloquism (2010)
• Myths of Origin, Omnibus collection containingThe Labyrinth,Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams,The Grass-Cutting Sword, andUnder in the Mere (2011)
• The Melancholy of Mechagirl(2013)
• The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2013)
• The Future Is Blue (2018)

• Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
• Apocrypha (2005)
• Oracles: A Pilgrimage (2006)
• The Descent of Inanna (2006)
• A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (May 2008)

• "The Oracle Alone"Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
• "Ghosts of Gunkanjima"Papaveria Press (2005)
• "The Maiden-Tree"Cabinet des Fees (2005)
• "Bones Like Black Sugar"Fantasy Magazine (2005)
• "Psalm of the Second Body"PEN Book of Voices (2005)
• "Ascent Is Not Allowed"The Minotaur in Pamplona (2005)
• "Thread: A Triptych"Lone Star Stories (2006)
• "Urchins, While Swimming"Clarkesworld Magazine (2006)
• "Milk and Apples"Electric Velocipede (2006)
• "Temnaya and the House of Books"Mythic (2006)
• "A Grey and Soundless Tide"Salon Fantastique (2006)
• "A Dirge For Prester John"Interfictions (2007)
• "The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth"Lone Star Stories (2007)
• "La Serenissima"Endicott Studio (2007)
• "The Proslogium of the Great Lakes"Farrago's Wainscot (2007)
• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica"Clarkesworld Magazine (2008)
• "Tales of Beaty and Strangeness: City of Blind Delights"Clockwork Phoenix (2008)
• "The Hanged Man"Farrago's Wainscot (2008)
• "An Anthology of Urban Fantasy: Palimpsest"Paper Cities, ed.Ekaterina Sedia (2008)
• "The Harpooner at the Bottom of the World"Spectra Pulse (2008)
• "Golubash, or, Wine-War-Blood-Elegy"Federations (2009)
• "The Secret History of Mirrors"Clockwork Phoenix 2 (2009)
• "A Book of Villainous Tales:A Delicate Architecture"Troll's Eye View (2009)
• "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew"Clarkesworld Magazine (2009)
• "The Anachronist's Cookbook"Steampunk Tales (2009)
• "A Between Books Anthology: Proverbs of Hell"The Stories in Between (2010)
• "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles"Dark Faith (2010)
• "Secretario"Weird Tales (2010)
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time"Clarkesworld Magazine (2010)
• "How to Become a Mars Overlord"Lightspeed (2010)
• "15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai"Haunted Legends (2010)
• "In the Future When All's Well"Teeth (2011)
• "A Voice Like a Hole"Welcome to Bordertown (2011)
• "The Wolves of Brooklyn"Fantasy Magazine (2011)
• "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While"Tor.com (2011)
• "White Lines on a Green Field"Subterranean Magazine (2011)

• Introduction toJane Eyre (Illustrated) (2007)
• "Regeneration X" inChicks Dig Time Lords (2010)
• Indistinguishable from Magic (2014)

• Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021)

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