Valerie Nieman has been a farmer, a sailor, a journalist, a teacher.
A graduate of WVU and Queens University of Charlotte, she has held state and NEA creative writing fellowships..
Her award-winning poetry and short prose have been published here and abroad.
To the Bones , a genre-bending novel about Appalachia, was published by West Virginia University Press in 2019, joining three earlier novels, a short fiction collection, and three poetry books.
Valerie Nieman has been a farmer, a sailor, a journalist, a teacher