Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American writer of fantasy, Trope Namer and one of the pioneers of the Mythpunk subgenre of speculative fiction. For a list of tropes common in Valente's fiction, visit the Mythpunk page.
Works of Catherynne M. Valente with their own tropes pages:
- The Orphan's Tales
- In The Night Garden (2006)
- In the Cities of Coin and Spice (2007)
- Palimpsest (2009)
- Dirge for Prester John
- The Habitation of the Blessed (2010)
- The Folded World (2011)
- The Spindle of Necessity (TBA)
- Deathless (2011)
- Fairyland Series
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011)
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (2012)
- The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (2013)
- The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (2015)
- The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (2016)
- Six-Gun Snow White (2013)
- Radiance (2015)
- The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
- Space Opera (2018)
Other Catherynne M. Valente novels and novellas:
- Myths of Origin: Four Short Novels (2011) a collection of—
- The Labyrinth (2004)
- Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams (2005)
- The Grass-Cutting Sword (2006)
- Under in the Mere (2009)
- Silently and Very Fast (2011)
- Speak Easy (2015)
- The Glass Town Game (2017)
- The Past is Red (2021)
- Comfort Me with Apples (2021)
Short story collections:
- Ventriloquism (2010)
- The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2013)
- The Melancholy of Mechagirl (2013)
- The Future is Blue (2018)
Miscellaneous projects:
- Invisible Games (2007)