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Catherynne M. Valente, 2HC Columnist
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About the Author:
Ms. Valente was born in a small town of dubious population whose residents are prone to fits of unrest and regularly scheduled, radio broadcasted social revolution. Her early achievements earned her great accolades when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (her first of seven to date) for her second grade written report "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."
Sadly, her prodigial childhood success, and the early exposure during her impressionable youth to the morally degraded life of literature and authors, led Ms. Valente down a spiraling road of self-destruction and she began experimenting. At first, it was only with short poetic forms. Soon, however, this gave way to large-scale poetry and the sad life of a back-alley novelist. Sometimes her binges lasted all night and into the next morning when friends and family would find her collapsed in a semi-conscious heap across her word processor still warm with the previous night's orgiastic typing.
She was last seen writing seductive couplets in a small house of ill repute in darkest Japan, slipping through the fingers of the businessmen and into the deep silken recesses of the geishas' inner chambers, peddling her cheap smack to the impressionable young maiko.
This is her last known address.
About her Bi-weekly Column:
The Kraken sweeps through the dark sea, placid, silent. Until her wrath is provoked by the vagaries of human culture—then, beware her vengeance! |
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