Valerie
San Filippo
Writer and Educator
Publications
Literary Tarot: Four of Quills
Brink Literacy Project, 2023
Fiction:
PANK, 16-17, 2022
"To be honest, I didn’t know how a wolf could be my grandma at all. This was just the way it was."
"Oh god,' Mom said. 'Oh god, what will the neighbors think of us?'"
TSRonline, 2018
George R.R. Martin Miskatonic Scholarship
Odyssey Writing Workshop, 2018
Poetry:
Instructions for Killing Girls,
LI Literary Journal, 2017
Typehouse Literary Magazine, 2017
"My beautiful mother pricked her finger sewing. The blood pilled, beaded, beetle-eyed, dropped into a jar of venetian ceruse. How pretty, she thought. Like lips on snow. I hope my daughter looks like that. Then she died, because of the ceruse..."
Chronic,
Noble / Gas Qtrly, 2016 (closed)
"...You stand there with a knife inside you. This is not your hand. You do not stab yourself..."