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 (2004)
- Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams (2005)
- The Grass-Cutting Sword (2006)
- 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 (forthcoming 2007)
Poetry
- Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
- Oracles: A Pilgrimage (2005)
- Apocrypha (2005)
- The Descent of Inanna (2007)
Short Fiction
- "Palimpsest" in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia (forthcoming November 2007)
- "A Dirge for Prester John" in Interfictions, edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss (April 2007)
- "Temnaya and the House of Books" in Mythic #2, edited by Mike Allen (March 2007)
- "Urchins, While Swimming" in Clarkesworld Magazine (December 2006)
- "Milk and Apples" in Electric Velocipede Issue #10 (fall 2006)
- "A Grey and Soundless Tide" in Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (September 2006)
- "Thread: A Trpitych" in Lone Star Stories Issue #14 (April 2006)
- "The Maiden-Tree" in Cabinet des Fees Online Issue #1 (2005); reprinted in Best New Fantasy, edited by Sean Wallace (November 2006)
- "Bones Like Black Sugar" in Fantasy Magazine Issue #1 (2005)
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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