Catherine M. Valente es una autora americana muy reconocida, conocida por sus obras en los géneros de fantasía y ciencia ficción, así como por su poesía. Nació en Seattle, Washington, y se crio en California. Después de graduarse de la secundaria a la temprana edad de quince años, obtuvo una Licenciatura en Artes en Clásicas, con énfasis en Lingüística Griega Antigua, de la UC San Diego y la Universidad de Edimburgo.
Valente ha tenido una carrera variada, habiendo trabajado como una vidente profesional, telemarketer, tutora privada, bibliotecaria, camarera, barman, actriz y estadística. Ha vivido en varios lugares diferentes, incluyendo California, Chicago, Japón, Australia y Melbourne. En la actualidad, reside en una pequeña isla frente a la costa de Maine con su pareja y un número creciente de animales.
Valente ha escrito más de veinticuatro libros y ha publicado numerosos cuentos cortos y poemas, que se pueden encontrar en línea y en varias revistas y antologías. Ha recibido varios premios prestigiosos, incluyendo el Locus y el Mejor Novela award, y ha sido nominada para los premios Western novela y Nebula. Uno de sus novelas ha sido opcionada para una película por un destacado cineasta ruso.
La escritura de Valente es conocida por su narración imaginativa y única, y ha sido reconocida como autora bestseller del New York Times. Sus obras incluyen la serie Fairyland, así como novelas independientes como Palimpsest, Deathless y Radiance. También es ganadora de varios premios, incluyendo el Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus y Hugo awards. A pesar de su éxito, sigue siendo accesible, viviendo una vida relativamente sencilla en una isla frente a la costa de Maine con su pareja y una gran cantidad de animales.
A Dirge for Prester John Books
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The Habitation of the Blessed
2010
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The Folded World
2011
Fairyland Books
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2011
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The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While
2011
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
2012
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The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
2013
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
2015
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The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
2016
Leningrad Diptych Books
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Deathless
2011
Omikuji Project Books
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This Is My Letter To The World
2010
The Orphan's Tales Books
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In the Night Garden
2006
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In the Cities of Coin and Spice
2007
Space Opera Books
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Space Opera
2018
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Space Oddity
2024
Novelas independientes
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The Grass Cutting Sword
2006
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The Labyrinth
2006
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Yume No Hon
2006
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Palimpsest
2009
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Deathless
2011
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Radiance
2015
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The Past Is Red
2021
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The Bread We Eat in Dreams
2013
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The Glass Town Game
2017
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Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods
2022
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
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A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica
2008
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Under in the Mere
2009
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Silently and Very Fast
2011
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Fade to White
2012
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Speak Easy
2015
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The Sin of America
2021
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L'Espirit de L'Escalier
2021
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Comfort Me With Apples
2021
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The Difference Between Love and Time
2022
Libros de imágenes
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Smoky and the Feast of Mabon
2010
Colecciones de cuentos cortos
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Oracles
2005
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Apocrypha
2005
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A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
2008
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This Is My Letter To The World
2010
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Ventriloquism
2010
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Myths of Origin
2011
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Six-Gun Snow White
2013
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The Melancholy of Mechagirl
2013
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The Bread We Eat in Dreams
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Indistinguishable from Magic
2014
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The Refrigerator Monologues
2017
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The Future is Blue
2018
Libros infantiles
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Smoky and the Feast of Mabon
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The Glass Town Game
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Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods
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Mass Effect: Andromeda Books
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Nexus Uprising
2017
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Nexus Uprising ( By: Jason M. Hough)
2017
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Initiation ( By: N.K. Jemisin)
2017
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Initiation
2017
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Annihilation
2018
Minecraft Books
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The Island
2017
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The Island ( By: Max Brooks)
2017
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The Crash
2018
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The Crash (By: Tracey Baptiste)
2018
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The Lost Journals ( By: Mur Lafferty)
2019
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The Lost Journals
2019
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The End
2019
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The Voyage
2020
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The Voyage (By: Jason Fry)
2020
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The Rise of the Arch-Illager
2020
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The Rise of the Arch-Illager (By: Matt Forbeck)
2020
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The Shipwreck
2020
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The Shipwreck (By: C.B. Lee)
2020
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The Mountain (By: Max Brooks)
2021
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The Mountain
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The Dragon
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The Dragon (By: Nicky Drayden)
2021
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Mob Squad (By: Delilah S. Dawson)
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Mob Squad
2021
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The Haven Trials
2021
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The Haven Trials (By: Suyi Davies)
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Never Say Nether (By: Delilah S. Dawson)
2022
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Never Say Nether
2022
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Zombies!
2022
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Zombies! (By: Nick Eliopulos)
2022
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Don't Fear the Creeper
2022
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Don't Fear the Creeper (By: Delilah S. Dawson)
2022
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Castle Redstone
2022
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Castle Redstone (By: Sarwat Chadda)
2022
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Return Of The Piglins
2023
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Return of the Piglins ( By: Matt Forbeck)
2023
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The Village
2023
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Zombies Return! (By: Nick Eliopulos, Mojang Studios)
2023
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The Village (By: Max Brooks)
2023
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Minecraft: The Tournament: An Official Minecraft Novel (By: DaVaun Sanders)
2024
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Minecraft Journey to the Ancient City (By: Danny Lore, Mojang Studios)
2025
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The Temple of the Charged Creeper (By: Matt Forbeck)
2025
The WisCon Chronicles Books
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The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future
2008
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The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF
2009
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The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4
2010
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The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5
2011
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The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom
2012
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The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives
2013
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The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9
2015
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The WisCon Chronicles 11
2017
Clockwork Phoenix Books
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Clockwork Phoenix (With: Tanith Lee, John C. Wright, Deborah Biancotti, Laird Barron, Mike Allen, Vandana Singh, Cat Rambo, Cat Sparks, John Grant, Ekaterina Sedia, Leah Bobet, Erin Hoffman, Michael J. DeLuca, Jennifer Crow, C.S. MacCath, David Sandner, Marie Brennan, Joanna Galbraith)
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Clockwork Phoenix 2 (With: Tanith Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, Steve Rasnic Tem, Saladin Ahmed, Forrest Aguirre, Mike Allen, Claude Lalumière, Kelly Barnhill, Gemma Files, Ian McHugh, Leah Bobet, Barbara Krasnoff, Marie Brennan, Ann Leckie, Joanna Galbraith, Stephen J. Barringer)
2009
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Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (By: Tanith Lee, John C. Wright, Gregory Frost, Michael M. Jones, Mike Allen, Cat Rambo, John Grant, Kenneth Schneyer, Shweta Narayan, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Georgina Bruce, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Tori Truslow, S.J. Hirons)
2010
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Clockwork Phoenix 4 (By: Tanith Lee, Richard Parks, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Yves Meynard, Cat Rambo, Kenneth Schneyer, Gemma Files, Alisa Alering, Ian McHugh, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Shira Lipkin, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Camille Alexa, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Yukimi Ogawa, Corinne Duyvis)
2013
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Clockwork Phoenix 5 (By: Alex Dally MacFarlane, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, Cassandra Khaw, C.S.E. Cooney, Carlos Hernandez, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Sonya Taaffe, Beth Cato, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Gray Rinehart, Marie Brennan, Sam Fleming, Shveta Thakrar, Holly Heisey, Jason Kimble, Rachael L. Jones, Rob Cameron, Sunil Patel)
2016
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
2009
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
2011
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
2012
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
2013
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
2014
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
2016
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
2018
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The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
2018
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
2020
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
2021
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
2022
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
2024
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
2024
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
2025
The WisCon Chronicles Books (with Mary Anne Mohanraj, with Elizabeth Bear, with Rachel Swirsky, with Kelly Link, with Mark Rich, with Lawrence Schimel, with Sylvia Kelso, with Nisi Shawl, with Yoon Ha Lee, with Eileen Gunn, with L. Duchamp, with Nnedi Okorafor, with Nicola Griffith, with N.K. Jemisin, with K. Tempest Bradford, with Jaymee Goh, with Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, with Joan Haran, with Laura Quilter, with Laurie J. Marks, with K. Joyce Tsai, with Tom LaFarge, with Kate Schaefer, with Rosalyn Berne, with Susan Simensky Bietila, with Jacqueline A. Gross, with Chris Nakashima Brown, with M.J. Hardman, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, with Alexis Lothian)
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The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 (With: Elizabeth Bear, Rachel Swirsky, Kelly Link, Mark Rich, Lawrence Schimel, Nisi Shawl, Eileen Gunn, L. Duchamp, Nnedi Okorafor, Nicola Griffith, N.K. Jemisin, K. Tempest Bradford, Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, Joan Haran, Laura Quilter, Laurie J. Marks, K. Joyce Tsai, Tom LaFarge, Kate Schaefer, Rosalyn Berne, Susan Simensky Bietila, Jacqueline A. Gross, Chris Nakashima Brown, M.J. Hardman)
2008
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The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (By: Yoon Ha Lee)
2009
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The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (By: Sylvia Kelso)
2010
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The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (By: Nisi Shawl)
2011
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The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (By: Alexis Lothian)