Member Val_Nieman
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- Mar 1, 2022
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- Valerie Nieman
- About My Library
- Sadly, I had to downsize when I retired and moved. Still books everywhere!
- About Me
Valerie Nieman's latest, In the Lonely Backwater, a YA/crossover thriller in the Southern gothic tradition, is out from Regal House/Fitzroy Books and getting excellent reviews in Southern Literary Review, Chapter 16, StorySouth, and many others. To the Bones, her genre-bending folk horror/thriller about coal country, was a finalist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award, joining Blood Clay (Eric Hoffer Award) and two other novels. She has also published a short fiction collection and three poetry collections, most recently, Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse from Press 53, which was runner-up for the Brockman-Campbell Prize. She has published widely in journals and anthologies, and has held state and NEA creative writing fellowships. A native of western New York, Nieman holds degrees from WVU and Queens University of Charlotte, and was a reporter and farmer in West Virginia before moving to North Carolina, where she worked as an editor and as a creative writing professor at NC A&T State University. Her activities include sailing, hiking, and gardening.
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- http://www.valnieman.com
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