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Catherynne M. Valente
Born (1979-05-05) May 5, 1979 (age 44)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation
  • Poet
  • novelist
  • literary critic
Nationality American
Alma mater UC San Diego
University of Edinburgh
Genre Postmodern, fantasy, mythpunk
Notable awards James Tiptree Jr. Award (2006), storySouth Million Writers Award (2007), Rhysling Award (2007), Mythopoeic Award (2008), Andre Norton Award (2009), Locus Award (2014)

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.

Career

Catherynne M. Valente's novels have been nominated for Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. Her 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's work 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.

She is a regular panelist on the podcast SF Squeecast.

Multimedia and mythpunk

Valente tours regularly both in America and abroad. She occasionally performs with singer/songwriter S. J. Tucker, who along with her own varied discography composes albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts throughout North America, often 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, 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.

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.

Awards

Year Award Work (if applicable)
2006 James Tiptree Jr. Award The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)
2007 storySouth Million Writers Award Urchins, While Swimming, Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 3
2007 World Fantasy Award Nominee (Best Novel) The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)
2008 Rhysling Award (long poem category) The Seven Devils of Central California, Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007
2008 Mythopoeic Award (adult literature) The Orphan's Tales (series)
2009 World Fantasy Award Nominee (nominee, Best Short Story) A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica, Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008
2009 Andre Norton Award The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2010 CultureGeek Readers' Choice Award (Best Web Fiction of the 21st Century) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) Palimpsest
2010 Locus Awards (nominee) Palimpsest
2010 Lambda Literary Awards Palimpsest
2012 Hugo Award for Best Fancast SF Squeecast (with Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, and Elizabeth Bear)
2012 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) "Fade to White"
2012 Time Top 10 Fiction Books The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
2012 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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
2016 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild"
2017 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
2017 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award The Future Is Blue
2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) Space Opera
2022 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) The Past is Red
2022 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) “L'Esprit de L'Escalier”
2022 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) "The Sin of America"
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