Catherynne M. Valente

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.^[4]

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^{[citation needed]} online, crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before traditional publication.^[5][6][7]

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.^[8] 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.^[9]

Novels and Novellas

Fiction collections

• This Is My Letter to the World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One. Kinsenka Press. April 28, 2010. ISBN 9780557441181.
• Ventriloquism. PS Publishing. December 1, 2010. ISBN 9781848631250.
• Myths of Origin: Four Short Novels. Wyrm Publishing. December 6, 2011. ISBN 9781890464141.^[b]
• The Melancholy of Mechagirl. Haikasoru. July 16, 2013. ISBN 9781421556130.
• The Bread We Eat in Dreams. Subterranean Press. December 31, 2013. ISBN 9781596065826.
• The Future Is Blue. Subterranean Press. July 31, 2018. ISBN 9781596068742.

Poetry collections

• Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
• Apocrypha (2005)
• Oracles: A Pilgrimage (2006)
• The Descent of Inanna (2006)
• A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects. Norilana Books. May 31, 2008. ISBN 9781934648353.

Short fiction

• "The Oracle Alone" Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
• "Ghosts of Gunkanjima" Papaveria Press (2005)
• "The Maiden-Tree" Cabinet des Fees (2005)
• "Bones Like Black Sugar" Fantasy Magazine (2005)
• "Psalm of the Second Body" PEN Book of Voices (2005)
• "Ascent Is Not Allowed" The Minotaur in Pamplona (2005)
• "Thread: A Triptych" Lone Star Stories (2006)
• "Urchins, While Swimming" Clarkesworld Magazine (2006)
• "Milk and Apples" Electric Velocipede (2006)
• "Temnaya and the House of Books" Mythic (2006)
• "A Grey and Soundless Tide" Salon Fantastique (2006)
• "A Dirge For Prester John" Interfictions (2007)
• "The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth" Lone Star Stories (2007)
• "La Serenissima" Endicott Studio (2007)
• "The Proslogium of the Great Lakes" Farrago's Wainscot (2007)
• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" Clarkesworld Magazine (2008)
• "Tales of Beaty and Strangeness: City of Blind Delights" Clockwork Phoenix (2008)
• "The Hanged Man" Farrago's Wainscot (2008)
• "An Anthology of Urban Fantasy: Palimpsest" Paper Cities, ed. Ekaterina Sedia (2008)
• "The Harpooner at the Bottom of the World" Spectra Pulse (2008)
• "Golubash, or, Wine-War-Blood-Elegy" Federations (2009)
• "The Secret History of Mirrors" Clockwork Phoenix 2 (2009)
• "A Book of Villainous Tales:A Delicate Architecture" Troll's Eye View (2009)
• "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" Clarkesworld Magazine (2009)
• "The Anachronist's Cookbook" Steampunk Tales (2009)
• "A Between Books Anthology: Proverbs of Hell" The Stories in Between (2010)
• "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" Dark Faith (2010)
• "Secretario" Weird Tales (2010)
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" Clarkesworld Magazine (2010)
• "How to Become a Mars Overlord" Lightspeed (2010)
• "15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai" Haunted Legends (2010)
• "In the Future When All's Well" Teeth (2011)
• "A Voice Like a Hole" Welcome to Bordertown (2011)
• "The Wolves of Brooklyn" Fantasy Magazine (2011)
• "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While" Tor.com (2011)
• "White Lines on a Green Field" Subterranean Magazine (2011)

Nonfiction

• Introduction to Jane Eyre (Illustrated) (2007)
• "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords (2010)
• Indistinguishable from Magic (2014)

Anthologies edited

• Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021)

Awards for literature

Other awards