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Valerie earned a doctorate in audiology, a master’s degree in speech pathology and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. This was followed by an unconventional career in hearing healthcare in the US, New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore. For the last eight years she has been taking creative writing classes from the Stanford Continuing Studies Creative Writing program and participating in multiple critique groups. Through it all, she has been a voracious, omnivorous reader. When she’s not writing stories about badass older women, she can be found hiking or playing with her two golden retrievers.