Catherynne M. Valente graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan. Her writing tends to be postmodern, with rich language (drawing upon her Classics education) and surrealist elements. She has also ventured into a more mainstream style with her series of original fairy tales, The Orphan’s Tales.
She and I spoke about her coming novel Palimpsest, maps, trains, Japan, and reading Waiting for Godot as a child.
Visit her website at: CatherynneMValente.com. Order her novel Palimpsest at Amazon.
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