Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente (born 1979) is an American poet and fantasy author.
She participated in the WisCon 30 panel "Feminist Fairy Tales" (among others), did a reading from her work, and presented an academic paper there.
She was the guest of the Hour of the Wolf on Saturday, December 9, 2006.
Winner of the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (with Shelley Jackson for Half Life).
Bibliography
Novels
- The Labyrinth
- Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
- The Grass-Cutting Sword
- The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (2006; winner, James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
- The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Poetry
- Music of a Proto-Suicide
- Apocrypha
- Oracles: A Pilgrimage
- The Descent of Inanna
Short Fiction
Critical Work
- The Sacrifice of Polyxena: The Feminine Archetype in Greek and Roman Drama
- Tell Me About Your Mother: Oedipus, Female Archetypes, and Parallel Versions of The Phoenician Women
- Wine, Women, and Song: Feminine Archetypes and the Destruction of the Male in The Bacchae and Hippolytus
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Katabasis and the Female Hero in Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and The Nutcracker Ballet
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