The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (76 page)

Catherynne M. Valente
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including
Palimpsest
, the Orphan’s Tales series,
Deathless
, and the crowdfunded phenomenon
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making
. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling,
Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. She has 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.