Catherynne M. Valente

Twenty years ago today, January 4th, 2004, my first chapbook and its companion were published. My first anything was published. I was living in Japan, the wife of a naval officer (a biographical fact that always stuns people who have only known me as I am now), lonely and miserable as a candle in a

Hello, everyone! (And an extra hello to many new people!) Here is the awkward embarrassing evergreen-ly weird and cringey post where I tell the internet what I had published last year that's eligible for various awards this year. If you nominate for these things, please consider giving this stuff a