i was told & believed for so long that poetry wasn’t a practical or noble pursuit. so to take a chance on myself anyway, to go after my MFA, write & publish a book during it & have a whole crowd of people at my book launch & sell out of 50 copies…it’s everything. trust yourself.

📖: tender teeth

less than a month until the release of my poetry book, tender teeth!!! here’s the cover reveal to celebrate <3

it’s getting real!!!🥹

i am so excited to share that i am a contributing author to THE TONGUE IS SHARP - an anthology of feminine rage coming January 20, 2025🫀‼️

just presented my thesis and killed it even though i was so nervous!!!! social anxiety who!!!

Frodo got part of his bone removed in surgery and has sutures going up half his leg and in his armpit and he’s still the happiest little guy😭 making me remember to romanticize every part of my life fr

hiiiii 🦋

my name is val, I’m a poet/fiction writer/editor/bookworm & vegan who still masks, loves all things fantasy & female rage & circus related, and is looking for friends old & new <3