Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan. She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.
Series
Books
Mouse Koan
2012
Music of a Proto-Suicide
2004
Comfort Me with Apples
2021
What the Dragon Said
A Love Story
2012
Under in the Mere
2009
Minecraft
The End
2019
Someone in Time
Tales of Time-Crossed Romance
2022
A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
2008
Speak Easy
2015
Other Worlds Than These
2012
The Melancholy of Mechagirl
2013
Silently and Very Fast
2011
Yume No Hon
The Book of Dreams
2005
The Descent of Inanna
2006
The Folded World
2011
Myths of Origin
2011
Mad Hatters and March Hares
2017
In the Night Garden
2006
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
2013
The Shoot-Out at Burnt Corn Ranch Over the Bride of the World
2013
The Seething Sea Sufficeth Us
2019
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten
2015
The Difference Between Love and Time
2022
Whedonistas
A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them
2011
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2011
Space Opera
2018
Radiance
2015
The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still
2016
Deathless
2011
Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985
2012
Annihilation
2018
Apocrypha
2005
Smoky and the Feast of Mabon
2010
The Refrigerator Monologues
2017
The Labyrinth
2004
In Which Your Wily Narrator Takes a Vacation in Fairyland and There Meets a Very Familiar, Very Large, and Very Red Fellow With A Number of Questions on His Mind
2012
The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
2023
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
2016
The Days of Flaming Motorcycles
2010
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
2012
Clash of the Geeks
2010
Six-Gun Snow White
2013
Space Oddity
2024
The Grass-Cutting Sword
2006
Ventriloquism
2010
The Habitation of the Blessed
2010
Nebula Awards Showcase 55
2021
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods
2022
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While
2011
The Past Is Red
2021
L'Esprit de L'Escalier
2021
The Future Is Blue
2018
The Bread We Eat in Dreams
2013
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
2015
The Glass Town Game
2017
Oracles
A Pilgrimage
2005
In the Cities of Coin and Spice
2007
Palimpsest
2009
The Ordinary Woman and the Unquiet Emperor
2017
Indistinguishable from Magic
2014
