She holds a BA in Archival Poetics from The Evergreen State College, where she learned to study via writing and write via study. An infrequently-updated collection of her works can be found online. Valerie is currently in the starts of XX, a collaborative working with/in The Story of O (Reage, 1954) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Kinsey, 1953) with Aria Boutet. She will be enrolled in the M.F.A. in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, come fall.