Guest of Honour

Catherynne M. Valente is an American writer, critic and editor. She has written several novels as well as short stories and poetry, and has won, among others, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Mythopoeic Award, and the Andre Norton Award for her work. Her novel Palimpsest was a Hugo and Locus Award nominee and won the Lambda Literary Award in 2010. One of her latest books, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, debuted at number 8 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as in the essay anthology Chicks Dig Time Lords. She has also served as the fiction and poetry editor of Apex Magazine.

Valente lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her husband, two dogs, and a cat.

Links

• Rules for Anchorites  (LJ)
• Twitter
• Bibliography
• Wikipedia

Fiction available online

• The Melancholy of Mechagirl (Mythic Delirium #25, Summer/Fall 2011)
• Silently and Very Fast, part 2, part 3 (Clarkesworld #61–#63, Fall 2011)
• White Lines on a Green Field (Subterranean Press, Fall 2011)
• The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland – For a Little While (Tor.com, July 2011)
• The Wolves of Brooklyn (Fantasy Magazine #52, July 2011)
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (Clarkesworld #47, 2010)
• How to Become a Mars Overlord (Lightspeed #3, August 2010)
• Secretario (Weird Tales #356, Summer 2010)
• The Days of Flaming Motorcycles (Apex, May 2010)
• The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew (Clarkesworld #35, August 2009)
• Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire (By Blood We Live Anthology, 2009)
• A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica (Clarkesworld #20, May 2008)
• The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth (Lone Star Stories #22, August 2007)
• Pasiphae’s Machine (Heliotrope #1 [pdf], August 2006)
• Thread: A Triptych (Lone Star Stories #14, April 2006)
• The Maiden Tree (Best New Fantasy Anthology, 2006)
• Urchins, While Swimming (Clarkesworld #3, December 2006)
• Bones Like Black Sugar (Fantasy Magazine #1, Winter 2005)

Podcasts

• SF Squeecast (a podcast to discuss good books, by Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Lynne Thomas, Paul Cornell and Seanan McGuire)
• The Writer And The Critic #8 (live from Continuum 7; problems and politics of writers reviewing the work of their friends)
• Salon Futura (October 2010, writing LGBT Characters, discussion with Nicola Griffith and Hal Duncan, hosted by Cheryl Morgan)
• Geeks Guide to the Galaxy #23 (October 2010, interview about mythpunk, secually transmitted cities, Prester John, and pulp era visions of Mars and Venus)
• Bat Segundo Show #266 (February 2009, discussing a lot of topics, some involving Palimpsest)

Other stuff

• Author spotlight (Fantasy Magazine, July 2011)
• Voodoo Economics: How to Find Serenity in an Industry that Does Not Want You (Clarkesworld)
• Guest blogging on Jeff Vandermeer’s blog (2007)
• Interview on Unshelved (2011)
• Interview on Strange Horizons (2011)
• Interview on Pressdemocrat (2011)
• Nebula Awards Interview (2010)
• Interview on Bookslut (2009)
• Interview on Clarkesworld (2008)
• Interview on Fantasy Magazine (2007)

photo: Johan Anglemark