Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente is the author of over a dozen books of fiction and poetry, and is best-known for her urban speculative fiction, including Palimpsest (winner of the 2010 Lambda Award), and The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden. This, her first novel for young readers, was posted online in 2009 and won the Andre Norton Award—the first book to ever win before traditional publication. Cat Valente lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, and an enormous cat.
 
Ana Juan is a world-renowned illustrator known in this country for her wonderful covers for the New Yorker magazine, as well as the children’s books The Night Eater, and Frida, written by Jonah Winter. She lives in Spain.


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A trailer for Deathless, the new novel by Catherynne M. Valente. Utlizes stock footage of Russian women and soldiers. Special thanks to Betsy Tinney for her beautiful cello rendition of Dark Eyes and Forest Rogers for use of her iconic painting of Baba Yaga.

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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Catherynne M. Valente; Illustrated by Ana Juan
Square Fish

Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is...


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Deathless

Catherynne M. Valente
Tor Books

Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what giants or wicked witches are to European culture: the villain of countless stories which have been passed on...


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The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While
A Tor.Com Original
Catherynne M. Valente
Tor Books

The story of how Mallow defeated King Goldmouth with the help of the Red Wind, Mr. Map, and many fairyland friends new and old, by the author of The Girl Who...


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