Valerie

San Filippo

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    Writer and Educator
     

    Publications 

    Fiction:

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    Grandma What Big Teeth,

    PANK, (forthcoming)

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    House Keeper,

    F(r)iction #18, 2021 (forthcoming)

     

    Where Water Runs, 

    TSRonline, 2018

    "...Father cut the snake in half. Two writhing serpent ends. The ends kept moving. I watched them. They were curling a cursive which I could not yet read." 

     

    George R.R. Martin Miskatonic Scholarship

    Odyssey Writing Workshop, 2018

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    Poetry:

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    Instructions for Killing Girls,

    LI Literary Journal, 2017

    "...gnash down, gnaw on, 'Grandma, what big teeth you have--' Pull apart, Rip apart with 'if you hadn’t been wearing red.'..."

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    The Apple,

    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..."

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    Chronic, 

    Noble / Gas Qtrly, 2016

    "...You stand there with a knife inside you. This is not your hand. You do not stab yourself..." 

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