Catherynne M. Valente
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" 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. Published by Night Shade Books: Selected works. Novellas. Published by Feiwel & Friends: