Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente (born 1979) (website, LJ) 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 on 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 (2007)
• The Ice Puzzle (2007)
• Under in the Mere (2009)
• Palimpsest (2009)
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2009, print forthcoming)
• The Habitation of the Blessed (forthcoming)

Poetry

• Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
• Oracles: A Pilgrimage (2005)
• Apocrypha (2005)
• The Descent of Inanna (2007)
• A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (2008)

Short Fiction

• "Mother is a Machine" (2005, in Jabberwocky 1, ed. by Sean Wallace)
• "Bones Like Black Sugar" (2005, in Fantasy Magazine Issue #1)
• "The Maiden-Tree" (2005, in Cabinet des Fees Online Issue #1, reprinted in Best New Fantasy, ed. Sean Wallace)
• "Thread: A Triptych" (2006, in Lone Star Stories Issue #14)
• "A Grey and Soundless Tide" (2006, in Salon Fantastique, ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling)
• "Milk and Apples" (2006, in Electric Velocipede Issue #10)
• "Urchins, While Swimming" in Clarkesworld Magazine (December 2006)
• "Temnaya and the House of Books" (2007, in Mythic #2, edited by Mike Allen)
• "A Dirge for Prester John" (2007, in Interfictions, edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss)
• "Palimpsest" (2007, in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, ed. Ekaterina Sedia)
• "Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai"

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

External Links

• Official website

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