Valerie Valdes

Valeria Valdes is a science fiction and fantasy author whose work has been featured in “Nightmare Magazine,” “Time Travel Short Stories” and “Uncanny Magazine.” She gained her reputation with the publishing of her debut novel “Chilling Effect,” a critically acclaimed novel that came out in 2019. Valerie studied English literature at the University of Miami, minoring in motion pictures and Creative Writing. She also graduated from the Viable Paradise Workshop and since then has worked as a copy editor and been a professor of speculative short fiction. For more than a decade, she has been the National Novel Writing Month’s Municipal Liaison. She loves to say that she lives with her husband and children in an elaborate meme palace in Georgia where she moonlights as a muse. When she is not writing, she loves to admire the outdoors from her room or craft handmade custom artisanal curses.