Valerie San Filippo is a writer and educator from Long Island, New York. She is an MFA candidate at Stony Brook 

Southampton. Her fiction and poetry 

has appeared or is forthcoming

in F(r)iction, TSROnline,

Noble / Gases Qtrly,

and others. She is a recipient

of George R.R. Martin's Miskatonic 

Scholarship, and a graduate of the

 Odyssey Writing Workshop.

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She is an experienced editor of literary, academic, and lifestyle magazine writing. In her spare time, she makes collages and paints D&D minis.