Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy awards. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as in numerous essay collections.

For the Italian singer, see Caterina Valente.

Catherynne M. Valente
Born (1979-05-05) May 5, 1979
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUC San Diego
University of Edinburgh
GenrePostmodern, fantasy, mythpunk
Notable awardsJames Tiptree Jr. Award (2006), storySouth Million Writers Award (2007), Rhysling Award (2007), Mythopoeic Award (2008), Andre Norton Award (2009), Locus Award (2014)
Website
catherynnemvalente.com

Career

Valente's 2009 book Palimpsest won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction or Fantasy. 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 (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 novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making debuted at #8 on the New York Times Best Seller List. Its sequel, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, featured at #5 on Time's Best Fiction of 2012 list.

In 2009, she donated her archive to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.[1]

She is a regular panelist on the podcast SF Squeecast.[2]

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.[3]

Valente is active in the crowdfunding movement of online artists, and 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.[4][5][6]

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.[7] 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.[8]

Selected works

Novels

Novellas
The Orphan's Tales
Main article: The Orphan's Tales
A Dirge for Prester John

Published by Night Shade Books:

  • The Habitation of the Blessed (2010)
  • The Folded World (2011)
Fairyland
Main article: Fairyland (series)

Published by Feiwel & Friends:

  • Prequel: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While[13] (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 in Palimpsest).[14]
  • 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)

Anthologies edited

Poetry
  • 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)

Nonfiction
  • Introduction to Jane Eyre (Illustrated) (2007)
  • "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords (2010)
  • Indistinguishable from Magic (2014)

Short fiction
  • "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)

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

Awards
YearAwardWork (if applicable)
2006James Tiptree Jr. AwardThe Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)[15]
2007storySouth Million Writers AwardUrchins, While Swimming, Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 3[16]
2007World Fantasy Award Nominee (Best Novel)The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)[17]
2008Rhysling Award (long poem category)The Seven Devils of Central California Archived October 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007
2008Mythopoeic Award (adult literature)The Orphan's Tales (series)[18]
2009World Fantasy Award Nominee (nominee, Best Short Story)A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica, Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008[19]
2009Andre Norton AwardThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making[20]
2010CultureGeek Readers' Choice Award (Best Web Fiction of the 21st Century)The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making[21]
2010Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee)Palimpsest[22]
2010Locus Awards (nominee)Palimpsest[22]
2010Lambda Literary AwardsPalimpsest[22]
2012Hugo Award for Best FancastSF Squeecast (with Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, and Elizabeth Bear)[23]
2012 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) "Fade to White"[24]
2012Time Top 10 Fiction BooksThe Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There[25]
2012 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making[26]
2012 Locus Award for Best Novella "Silently and Very Fast"
2014 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two[27]
2016 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild"[28]
2017 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There[29]
2017 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award The Future Is Blue[30]
2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) Space Opera
2022 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) The Past is Red[31]
2022 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) "L'Esprit de L'Escalier"[31]
2022 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) "The Sin of America"[31]

References
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  2. "List of regular contributors". SF Squeecast blog. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  3. "Two Artists, Many Stripes, One Voice: An Interview With S.j. Tucker & Catherynne M. Valente". The Interstitial Arts Foundation. March 31, 2011. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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  5. "Nebula Awards Results". Science Fiction Awards Watch. May 15, 2010. Archived from the original on May 25, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
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  7. "A Rose in Twelve Names". Rules for Anchorites. March 28, 2006. Archived from the original on May 6, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
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  9. The Glass Town Game. Kirkus Reviews.
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  11. Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente. Booklist Online.
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  14. Valente, Catherynne M. "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – About This Book". Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
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  16. "storySouth Million Writers Award". www.storysouth.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
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  18. "Mythopoeic Awards - 2008 - Mythopoeic Society". Mythopoeic Society. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
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  26. "2012 Locus Award Winners". Locus Online News. June 16, 2012. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
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