Catherynne M. Valente
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| Born | Bethany L. Thomas May 5, 1979 Seattle, Washington |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist, literary critic |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | UC San Diego, Edinburgh University |
| Genres | Postmodern, fantasy, mythpunk |
| Notable award(s) | James Tiptree, Jr. Award (2006), Story South Million Writers Award for Best Online Short Story (2007), Rhysling Award (2007), Mythopoeic Award (2008), Andre Norton Award (2009) |
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Catherynne M. Valente (born Bethany L. Thomas, May 5, 1979, Seattle, Washington), is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. 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 under the name Bethany L. Thomas as well as in the essay anthology Chicks Dig Time Lords. She keeps a blog at [8] and currently lives on Peaks Island in the state of Maine with her husband. Valente has also published five books of poetry and won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry.
Her debut novel, The Labyrinth, was a Locus Recommended Book, and her subsequent novels have been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. Her 2009 book, Palimpsest, won the Lambda Award for GLBT 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, was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award, and was The Plain Dealer's #1 summer reading novel in 2007.
In 2009, she donated her archive to the [9] Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection] in the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.[1]
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[edit] Themes
Valente's work tends to center on folkloric and mythological themes, reimagining fairy tales and genre tropes via feminist, surrealist, and postmodern lenses. Her writing is characterized by stylistic and structural experimentation as well as complex linguistic and poetic techniques.
[edit] Multimedia and mythpunk
Valente tours with singer/songwriter SJ 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 extremely 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.
Valente coined the term mythpunk as a joke for describing her own and other works of challenging folklore-based fantasy in a blog post in 2006.[2]
[edit] Selected works
[edit] Novels
- The Labyrinth (Prime Books) ISBN 1894815653 (2004)
- The Ice Puzzle (2004), an original online casebook (in fiction form) of The Snow Queen fairy tales across different cultures
- Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams (Prime Books) ISBN 0809510871 (Blue and Red alternate editions) (2005)
- The Grass-Cutting Sword (Prime Books) ISBN 0809562308 (June 2006)
- Palimpsest (Bantam) ISBN 0553385763 (Feb 2009)
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (May 2011 from Feiwel & Friends) which started out in 2009 as a crowdfunded middle-grade online novel (originally, a fictional children's book in Palimpsest).[3]
- The Habitation of the Blessed (Night Shade Books) ISBN 1597801992 (November 2010), Book 1 of the Dirge for Prester John series
- Deathless (Tor Books) ISBN 0765326302 (March 2011)
- The Folded World (Night Shade Books) ISBN 1597802034 (November 2011), Book 2 of the Dirge for Prester John series
- Myths of Origin (Wyrm Publishing) ISBN 1890464147 (November 2011), Omnibus collection of The Labyrinth, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and Under in the Mere.
- The Orphan's Tales series (Bantam)
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1) ISBN 0553384031 (Oct 2006)
- Book of the Steppe
- Book of the Sea
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (vol. 2) ISBN 055338404X (Oct 2007)
- Book of the Storm
- Book of the Scald
[edit] Poetry
- Music of a Proto-Suicide (chapbook) (2004)
- Apocrypha (Prime Books) ISBN 0809550741 (2005)
- Oracles: A Pilgrimage (Prime Books) ISBN 0809500450 (2006)
- The Descent of Inanna (Papaveria Press) (2006)
- A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (May 2008)
[edit] Nonfiction
- Introduction to Jane Eyre (Illustrated) (Norilana Books) ISBN 193416979X (2007)
- "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords (2010, Mad Norwegian Press)
[edit] 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 Magazine (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 Magazine (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)
- "Silently and Very Fast" Clarkesworld Magazine and WSFA Press (2011)
[edit] Collections
- This Is My Letter To The World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One [4] (2010)
- Ventriloquism short story collection (PS Publishing) (December 2010)
[edit] Awards
[edit] References
- ^ Thomas, Lynne M. (2009-03-20). "Hugos, Catherynne Valente Archives, and CLIR Reports". Confessions of a Curator. http://niurarebooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/hugos-catherynne-valente-archives-and.html. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
- ^ A Rose in Twelve Names [1]. Retrieved on 2010-08-26
- ^ The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. [2]. Retrieved on 2009-6-16.
- ^ Omikuji Project, Cycle One - Kindle Edition [3]. Retrieved on 2010-08-24.
- ^ James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2006 Winners. [4]. Retrieved on 2008-12-11.
- ^ South 2007 Million Writers Award for Fiction. [5]. Retrieved on 2008-12-11.
- ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/. Retrieved 04 Feb 2011.
- ^ Mythopoeic Awards - 2008. [6]. Retrieved on 2008-12-11.
- ^ 2009 World Fantasy Awards. [7]. Retrieved on 2009-08-11.
- ^ a b Elizabeth Donald, bnd.com (Belleville News Democrat), "CultureGeek Readers' Choice Awards," January 15, 2010, accessed January 31, 2010.
- ^ a b c "The 2010 Hugo and John W. Campbell Award Nominees". AussieCon 4. April 4, 2010. http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/index.php?page=66. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
