凯瑟琳·M·瓦伦特

凯瑟琳·摩根·瓦伦特（Catherynne Morgan Valente，1979年5月5日—）是一位美国小说作家、诗人和文学评论家。她创作了不少推想虚构作品。2011年，她的作品位列纽约时报畅销书榜第8位。2012年，瓦伦特赢得了三项轨迹奖。

Catherynne Morgan 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, Jr. Award, Andre Norton Award, and Mythopoeic Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, and numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as other essay collections.

Career

Valente's 2009 book Palimpsest won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror. 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 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 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 with singer/songwriter S. J. Tucker, who has composed albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts 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. 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. Valente and other critics and writers have discussed mythpunk as a subgenre of mythic fiction that starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodernist literary techniques.

Personal life

In a 2025 interview published in Vector, Valente stated that she is queer and has ADHD.

Works

Standalone adult works

The Labyrinth. Prime Books. August 1, 2004. ISBN 9781894815659.

The Ice Puzzle. January 1, 2005. ASIN B0DTT29DWK.

Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams. Prime Books. July 1, 2005. ISBN 9780809510870.

The Grass-Cutting Sword. Prime Books. December 26, 2006. ISBN 9780809556779.

Palimpsest. Bantam Spectra. March 2009. ISBN 9780553385762.

Deathless. Tor Books. March 29, 2011. ISBN 9780765326300.

Silently and Very Fast. WSFA Press. October 14, 2011. ISBN 9781936896004.

Six-Gun Snow White. Subterranean Press. February 28, 2013. ISBN 9781596065529.

Speak Easy. Subterranean Press. August 31, 2015. ISBN 9781596067271.

Radiance. Tor Books. October 20, 2015. ISBN 9781466821484.

The Refrigerator Monologues. Illustrated by Annie Wu. June 6, 2017. ISBN 9781481459341.

The Past Is Red. Tordotcom. July 20, 2021. ISBN 9781250301130.

Comfort Me with Apples. Tordotcom. October 26, 2021. ISBN 9781250816214.

Standalone young adult works

The Glass Town Game. Illustrated by Rebecca Green. Margaret K. McElderry Books. September 5, 2017. ISBN 9781481476966.

Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods. Margaret K. McElderry Books. April 26, 2022. ISBN 9781481476997.

The Orphan's Tales

The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden. Vol. 1. Illustrated by Michael Kaluta. Spectra Books. October 31, 2006. ISBN 9780553384031.

The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice. Vol. 2. Illustrated by Michael Kaluta. Spectra Books. October 30, 2007. ISBN 9780553384048.

Fairyland

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Illustrated by Ana Juan. Feiwel & Friends. May 10, 2011. ISBN 9780312649616.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There. Illustrated by Ana Juan. Feiwel & Friends. October 2, 2012. ISBN 9780312649623.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two. Illustrated by Ana Juan. Feiwel & Friends. October 1, 2013. ISBN 9781250023506.