Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente
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Born (1979-05-05) May 5, 1979 (age 45)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation
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 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.

Contents

Career

Valente's 2009 book Palimpsest won the 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 (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. [2]

She is a regular panelist on the podcast SF Squeecast . [3]

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. [4]

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[ 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 term mythpunk 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 of mythic fiction that starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodernist literary techniques. [9]

Selected works

Novels

Novellas

The Orphan's Tales
A Dirge for Prester John

Published by Night Shade Books:

Fairyland

Published by Feiwel & Friends:

Fiction collections

Poetry collections

Short fiction

Nonfiction

Anthologies edited

Awards

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

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  3. ↑ "List of regular contributors". SF Squeecast blog. Archived from the original on August 19, 2018. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
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