Catherynne M. Valente


Catherynne Morgan Valente is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Andre Norton Award, and Mythopoeic Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, and numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as other essay collections.

Career

Valente's 2009 book Palimpsest won the Lambda [Literary Award for Speculative Fiction|Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror]. Her two-volume series The Orphan's Tales won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, won the 2006 James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award. In 2012, Valente won three Locus Awards: Best Novelette, Best Novella and Best YA Novel.
In 2009, she donated her archive to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Collection in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
She is a regular panelist on the podcast SF Squeecast.

Multimedia and mythpunk

Valente tours with singer/songwriter S. 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.
Valente is active in the crowdfunding movement of online artists. Her novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making was the first online, crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before traditional publication.
In a 2006 blog post, Valente coined the term mythpunk as a joke for describing her own and other works of challenging folklore-based fantasy. Valente and other critics and writers have discussed mythpunk as a subgenre of mythic fiction that starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodernist literary techniques.

Works

Novels and Novellas

Standalone works

  • The Orphan's Tales

  2. Fairyland

  2. The Space Opera

  4. Media tie-ins

  • Fiction collections

  • Poetry collections

  • Music of a Proto-Suicide
  • Apocrypha
  • Oracles: A Pilgrimage
  • The Descent of Inanna

  • Short fiction

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

    Nonfiction

  • Introduction to Jane Eyre
  • "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords
  • ''Indistinguishable from Magic''

    Anthologies edited

  • ''Nebula Awards Showcase 55''

    Awards and honors

Awards for literature

Other awards