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Catherynne M. Valente is an American poet, novelist, and literary critic. She is the author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, The Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Lambda, Locus, and Eugie Foster awards. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the fantasy magazine, Subterranean. Valente was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She attended high school in Port Townsend, Washington, and graduated from The Evergreen State College in 2001. She currently lives in Ohio with her husband and two children.

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Occupation Poet, novelist, literary critic
Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 5 May, 1979
Birthday 5 May
Birthplace Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2011

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's Best Fiction of 2012 list.

2009

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 3 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 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.

2006

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.

1979

Catherynne M. Valente (born Bethany Thomas, 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.