Genevieve Valentine
Genevieve Valentine (born 1981) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, comic book writer, and cultural critic. Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, won the Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel, and was shortlisted for the Nebula.
Genevieve Valentine

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- Name
- Genevieve Valentine
- Awards
- Crawford Award (2012)
- Born
- 1981
- Occupation
- * Novelist
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- science fiction · comic · science fiction literature
- Honours
- Crawford Award
- Languages
- English
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Genevieve Valentine naquit le 1er juin 1981.
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• Name — Genevieve Valentine • Awards — Crawford Award (2012) • Born — 1981 • Occupation — * Novelist • comic book writer • critic • Alma Mater — George Mason University • Genre — Fantasy, steampunk, science fiction • Website — https: www.genevievevalentine.com/
Early life and education
Early life and education
Genevieve Valentine was born into a military family. She spent her childhood growing up across California, Texas, Illinois, and Virginia. She earned a degree in English from George Mason University.
Career
Career
Valentine's short stories have been featured in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Conjunctions, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and more. Her short stories have appeared in over a dozen anthologies, including The Living Dead 2, The Way of the Wizard, Running with the Pack, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her stories have been nominated for multiple awards, such as the Shirley Jackson Award and World Fantasy Award. Her second novel, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, was published in 2014. For NPR, Amal El-Mohtar described the book as, "the best fairy tale retelling I've ever read." She wrote The Persona Series for Saga Press, (edited by Navah Wolfe), a science fiction thriller series which includes the novels Persona (2015) and Icon (2016). From 2014 to 2015, Valentine scripted a new series for DC Comics featuring Catwoman, working with artists Garry Brown and David Messina. Afterwards, she worked on Batman and Robin Eternal as scripter. Valentine's new comic series, Two Graves, is illustrated in competing points of view by Annie Wu and Ming Doyle. It premiered in November 2022 from Image Comics. The story is described as "a contemporary Persephone myth retelling." Her cultural criticism has appeared in NPR, The AV Club, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vice, Vox, and The New York Times, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Weird Tales, Tor.com, and Fantasy Magazine.
Novels
Novels
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Comics
Comics
• Catwoman (The New 52) • Batman and Robin Eternal • Xena Warrior Princess • Two Graves
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Anthology Appearances
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- 1.Genevieve Valentine: Behind the Curtain. Locus Online. 2012-06-03.
- 2.2012 Crawford Award Announced. Locus Online. 2013-01-24.
- 3.SFWA. 2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced. 2012-02-20.
- 4.Author Website, Genevieve Valentine. genevievevalentine.com.
- 5.Author Genevieve Valentine. fantasyliterature.com.
- 6.Jones, Jeremy L C. Momentary Glimpses of a Complete Circus:A Conversation with Genevieve Valetine. Clarkesworld.
- 7.sfadb: Shirley Jackson Awards 2012. www.sfadb.com.
- 8.sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2010. www.sfadb.com.
- 9.sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2020. www.sfadb.com.
- 10.El-Mohtar, Amal. 'Kingfisher' Girls Will Dance Their Way Into Your Heart. npr.org.
- 11.El-Mohtar, Amal. 'Persona' Is A Dangerous Dance Of Diplomacy And Celebrity. npr.org.
- 12.Persona: A novel with many strengths and virtually no weaknesses. fantasyliterature.com.
- 13.El-Mohtar, Amal. 'Icon' Keeps The Shutters Clicking And The Danger Growing. npr.org.
- 14.Myers, Maddy. Interview: Genevieve Valentine on Writing Catwoman As the Mob Queen of Gotham. themarysue.com.
- 15.GENEVIEVE VALENTINE, ANNIE WU & MING DOYLE KICK PERSEPHONE MYTH INTO HIGH GEAR WITH TWO GRAVES THIS NOVEMBER. Image Comics.
- 16.Genevieve Valentine. Clarkesworld.
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