Valerie San Filippo is a writer and educator from Long Island, New York. She received her MFA in Fiction from Stony Brook University, where she taught various classes on Fantasy and Surrealism.

 

Her fiction and poetry has appeared in PANK, F(r)iction, TSROnline,  Noble / Gas Qtrly, and others. She is a recipient of George R.R. Martin's Miskatonic Scholarship, and is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop.

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She is the creative mind behind Trash Witch Project, a girlie-punk upcycling experiment. She currently lives in Troy, New York with her husband and her dog.