Her work focuses on metabolisms between people and place, issues of economic migration and displacement, and the intersection of landscape and memory. Valerie received her bachelor's in History from Dalhousie University before studying at the International Centre of Photography in New York. She served as Editor/Publisher of Briarpatch Magazine from 2010 to 2014, and is currently working on Fault Lines: Life and Landscape in Saskatchewan’s Oil Economy, a collaborative book of photography and text with Emily Eaton (University of Manitoba Press, Fall 2016).