Catherynne M. Valente began September's adventures in installments on the Web; the project won legions of fans and also the Culture Geek Best Web Fiction of the Decade award. The result was her first novel for young readers, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, published in 2011 by Feiwel and Friends, and winner of the Andre Norton Award. Cat Valente lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her husband, two dogs, and an enormous cat.
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, and Hugo awards, as well as the Prix Imaginales. Valente has also been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
Find out more on her website and on Twitter!
