Catherynne M. Valente

Career

Multimedia and mythpunk

Selected works

Novels

• The Labyrinth
• The Ice Puzzle
• '
• The Grass-Cutting Sword
• Palimpsest
• Deathless
• Radiance
• The Glass Town Game
• Space Opera
• '

  Novellas

• Silently and Very Fast
• Six-Gun Snow White
• Speak Easy
• The Refrigerator Monologues

• * Book of the Steppe
• * Book of the Sea
• * Book of the Storm
• * Book of the Scald

• The Habitation of the Blessed
• The Folded World

• Prequel: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making started out in 2009 as a crowdfunded middle-grade online novel.
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
• The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
• The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
• The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

  Poetry

• Music of a Proto-Suicide
• Apocrypha
• Oracles: A Pilgrimage
• The Descent of Inanna
• A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

  Nonfiction

• Introduction to Jane Eyre
• "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords
• Indistinguishable from Magic

  Short fiction

• "The Oracle Alone" Music of a Proto-Suicide
• "Ghosts of Gunkanjima" Papaveria Press
• "The Maiden-Tree" Cabinet des Fees
• "Bones Like Black Sugar" Fantasy Magazine
• "Psalm of the Second Body" PEN Book of Voices
• "Ascent Is Not Allowed" The Minotaur in Pamplona
• "Thread: A Triptych" Lone Star Stories
• "Urchins, While Swimming" Clarkesworld Magazine
• "Milk and Apples" Electric Velocipede
• "Temnaya and the House of Books" Mythic
• "A Grey and Soundless Tide" Salon Fantastique
• "A Dirge For Prester John" INTERFICTIONS
• "The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth" Lone Star Stories
• "La Serenissima" Endicott Studio
• "The Proslogium of the Great Lakes" Farrago's Wainscot
• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" Clarkesworld Magazine
• "Tales of Beaty and Strangeness: City of Blind Delights" Clockwork Phoenix
• "The Hanged Man" Farrago's Wainscot
• "An Anthology of Urban Fantasy: Palimpsest" Paper Cities, ed. Ekaterina Sedia
• "The Harpooner at the Bottom of the World" Spectra Pulse Magazine
• "Golubash, or, Wine-War-Blood-Elegy" Federations
• "The Secret History of Mirrors" Clockwork Phoenix 2
• "A Book of Villainous Tales:A Delicate Architecture" Troll's Eye View
• "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" Clarkesworld Magazine
• "The Anachronist's Cookbook" Steampunk Tales
• "A Between Books Anthology:Proverbs of Hell" The Stories in Between
• "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" Dark Faith
• "Secretario" Weird Tales
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" Clarkesworld Magazine
• "How to Become a Mars Overlord" Lightspeed Magazine
• "15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai" Haunted Legends
• "In the Future When All's Well" Teeth
• "A Voice Like a Hole" Welcome to Bordertown
• "The Wolves of Brooklyn" Fantasy Magazine
• "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While" Tor.com
• "White Lines on a Green Field" Subterranean Magazine

  Collections

• This Is My Letter to the World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One
• Ventriloquism
• Myths of Origin, Omnibus collection containing The Labyrinth, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and Under in the Mere
• The Melancholy of Mechagirl
• The Bread We Eat in Dreams
• The Future Is Blue

  Awards