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2024
Space Opera • novel • Saga Press
awards:
• Seiun Awards 2025 — translated novel — nomination
Space Oddity • novel • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2025 — sf novel — 7th place

2023
The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One • collection • Subterranean Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2024 — collection — 7th place

2022
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods • novel • McElderry
awards:
• Lodestar Award 2023 — finalist
“The Difference Between Love and Time” • short fiction • Someone in Time
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2023 — novelette — nomination
• Locus Awards 2023 — novelette — 4th place

2021
The Past Is Red • novella • Tordotcom
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2022 — novella — nomination
• Le Guin Prize 2022 — shortlist
• Locus Awards 2022 — novella — 6th place
Comfort Me with Apples • novella • Tordotcom
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2022 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2022 — novella — 7th place
“The Sin of America” • short fiction • Uncanny Mar/Apr 2021
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2022 — short story — nomination
• Locus Awards 2022 — short story — 5th place
“L'Esprit de L'Escalier” • short fiction • Tor.com 25 Aug 2021
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2022 — novelette — nomination
• Eugie Awards 2022 — finalist
• Locus Awards 2022 — novelette — 2nd place

2020
“Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo” • short fiction • Strange Horizons 7 Sep 2020
awards:
• Locus Awards 2021 — novelette — 7th place

2018
The Future Is Blue • collection • Subterranean Press
awards:
• British Fantasy Awards 2019 — collection — nomination
• Locus Awards 2019 — collection — 3rd place
Space Opera • novel • Saga Press
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2019 — novel — nomination
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2019 — finalist
• Locus Awards 2019 — sf novel — 2nd place

2017
The Refrigerator Monologues • collection • Simon & Schuster/Saga Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2018 — collection — 5th place
“The Flame After the Candle”
anthologies:
• Mad Hatters and March Hares, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2017

2016
“The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” • short fiction • Beneath Ceaseless Skies May 2016
awards:
• Eugie Awards 2017 — finalist
“The Future is Blue” • short fiction • Drowned Worlds
awards:
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2017 — winner
• Locus Awards 2017 — novelette — 5th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris 2017
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, ed. Charles Yu & John Joseph Adams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 2017
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2017 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2017
• Drowned Worlds, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris 2016

2015
Radiance • novel • Tor
awards:
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2016 — honor list
citations:
• 2021: NPR Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade Of Great Sci-Fi And Fantasy, NPR
• 2017: Critical Survey of Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, Third Edition, Paul Di Filippo
“The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Jan,Mar 2015
awards:
• Eugie Awards 2016 — winner
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2016
“The Lily and the Horn”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2016
• The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Rebellion/Solaris 2016
“Planet Lion”
anthologies:
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, ed. Karen Joy Fowler & John Joseph Adams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 2016

2013
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two • novel • Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends
awards:
• Locus Awards 2014 — young adult book — winner
The Bread We Eat in Dreams • collection • Subterranean Press
awards:
• Locus Awards 2014 — collection — 3rd place
Six-Gun Snow White • novella • Subterranean Press
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2014 — novella — nomination
• Nebula Awards 2014 — novella — nomination
• World Fantasy Awards 2014 — novella — nomination
• Locus Awards 2014 — novella — winner
“We Without Us Were Shadows”
anthologies:
• Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Tor 2013

2012
SF Squeecast (by Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas & CMV presenters; -6-, technical producer)
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2013 — fancast — winner
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There • novel • Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends
awards:
• Locus Awards 2013 — young adult book — 3rd place
“One Breath, One Stroke” • short fiction • The Future Is Japanese
awards:
• Locus Awards 2013 — short story — 16th place
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2013 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2013
“Fade to White” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Aug 2012
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2013 — novelette — nomination
• Nebula Awards 2013 — novelette — nomination
• Sidewise Awards 2013 — short form — nomination
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2013
“Coming of Age on Barsoom” • short fiction • Under the Moons of Mars
awards:
• Locus Awards 2013 — short story — 7th place

2011
SF Squeecast (by Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear & CMV)
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2012 — fancast — winner
Apex Magazine (CMV, Lynne M. Thomas & Jason Sizemore, eds.)
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2012 — semiprozine — nomination
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making • novel • www.catherynnemvalente.com
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — young adult book — winner
• Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2017 — foreign YA novel — winner
• Mythopoeic Awards 2012 — children's literature — nomination
The Folded World • novel • Night Shade Books
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — fantasy novel — 9th place
Silently and Very Fast • novella • WSFA Press
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2012 — novella — nomination
• Nebula Awards 2012 — novella — nomination
• World Fantasy Awards 2012 — novella — nomination
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2012 — finalist
• Locus Awards 2012 — novella — winner
Deathless • novel • Tor
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — fantasy novel — 5th place
• Mythopoeic Awards 2012 — adult literature — nomination
“White Lines on a Green Field” • short fiction • Subterranean Fal 2011
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — novelette — winner
anthologies:
• Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends, ed. Paula Guran, Night Shade Books 2019
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2012
“The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland, for a Little While”
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2012
“The Bread We Eat in Dreams” • short fiction • Apex Nov 2011
awards:
• Locus Awards 2012 — short story — 4th place
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2012
“Silently and Very Fast” • WSFS Press
anthologies:
• More Human than Human, ed. Neil Clarke, Night Shade Books 2017
• Robots: The Recent A.I., ed. Rich Horton & Sean Wallace, Prime Books 2012
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin 2012
“In the Future When All's Well”
anthologies:
• Teeth: Vampire Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Harper 2011
“A Voice Like a Hole”
anthologies:
• Magic City: Recent Spells, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2014
Locus Awards 2012 — editor — 9th place

2010
The Habitation of the Blessed • novel • Night Shade Books
awards:
• Locus Awards 2011 — fantasy novel — 7th place
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Aug 2010
awards:
• Locus Awards 2011 — short story — 3rd place
anthologies:
• Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, PM Press 2015
“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” • short fiction • Dark Faith
awards:
• WSFA Small Press Award 2011 — shortlist — nomination
anthologies:
• The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three, ed. Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books 2011
• The Living Dead 2, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2010
“How to Become a Mars Overlord” • short fiction • Lightspeed Aug 2010
awards:
• Locus Awards 2011 — short story — 7th place
anthologies:
• Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, ed. David G. Hartwell & Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 2013
• Year's Best SF 16, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Harper Voyager 2011
“Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai”
anthologies:
• Haunted Legends, ed. Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, Tor 2010

2009
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making • novel • www.catherynnemvalente.com
awards:
• Andre Norton Award 2010 — winner
Palimpsest • novel • Bantam Spectra
awards:
• Hugo Awards 2010 — novel — nomination
• Locus Awards 2010 — fantasy novel — 4th place
• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2010 — novel — nomination
• Lambda Award 2010 — sf/fantasy/horror — winner
• Mythopoeic Awards 2010 — adult literature — nomination
“The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Magazine Aug 2009
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — short story — 11th place
anthologies:
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 Edition, ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books 2010
“Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy”
anthologies:
• War and Space: Recent Combat, ed. Rich Horton & Sean Wallace, Prime Books 2012
“A Delicate Architecture” • short fiction • Troll's Eye View
awards:
• Locus Awards 2010 — short story — 12th place
anthologies:
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books 2010
• The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 Edition, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2010
• Troll's Eye View, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking 2009
As Judge — James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2009

2008
“The City of Blind Delight”
anthologies:
• Other Worlds Than These, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2012
“Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero, or the City is Never Finished” (by Amal El-Mohtar & CMV) • short fiction • Lone Star Stories #30, Dec 2008
awards:
• Rhysling Awards 2009 — long poem — 3rd place
“A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica” • short fiction • Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2009 — short story — nomination
• Locus Awards 2009 — short story — 11th place
anthologies:
• Year's Best Fantasy 9, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tor 2009

2007
The Orphan's Tales • novel • Bantam Spectra
awards:
• Mythopoeic Awards 2008 — adult literature — winner
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice • novel • Bantam Spectra
awards:
• Locus Awards 2008 — fantasy novel — 9th place
“The Seven Devils of Central California” • short fiction • Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007
awards:
• Rhysling Awards 2008 — long poem — winner
anthologies:
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2010, ed. Bill Fawcett, Roc 2010
• The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-first Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin’s 2008

2006
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden • novel • Bantam Spectra
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2007 — novel — nomination
• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award 2007 — winner (tie)
“Urchins, While Swimming” • Clarksworld (online) Dec 2006
anthologies:
• Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep by Paula Guran, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books 2015
“The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider” • short fiction
awards:
• Rhysling Awards 2007 — long poem — 2nd place
“A Gray and Soundless Tide” • Salon Fantastique
anthologies:
• Salon Fantastique, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Thunder's Mouth Press 2006

2005
“The Maiden Tree”
anthologies:
• Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold, ed. Paula Guran, Night Shade Books 2016
“The Dance of Uzume-no-Ama” • short fiction • Apocrypha
awards:
• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2007 — other work — nomination
“Mother Is a Machine” • Jabberwocky
anthologies:
• Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, ed. Ann VanderMeer, Tachyon Publications 2012
“Bones Like Black Sugar” • short fiction • Fantasy #1
awards:
• Gaylactic Spectrum Awards 2007 — short fiction — nomination

2004
The Labyrinth • novel • Prime
awards:
• Locus Awards 2005 — first novel — 14th place
“The Anachronist's Cookbook”
anthologies:
• Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, ed. Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, Tachyon Publications 2010
“Exsanguinations”
anthologies:
• By Blood We Live, ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books 2009



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