Valerie Fox
Valerie Fox grew up in central Pennsylvania. She currently lives in New Jersey with her family and teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia. At Drexel, she helps to create the annual anthology for Writers Room. You can find her work online in The Cafe Irreal, Juked, Literary Orphans, Reflex, The Phare, Cleaver, and other journals.
Much interested in collaboration, she has worked with artist Jacklynn Niemiec and writer Arlene Ang. She is currently (since 1/2023) the Managing Editor at New Flash Fiction Review
Recent Publications
The Cafe Irreal (8/2023): I keep trying to name the city I often dream of
New Flash Fiction Review (4/2023): Interview with Dan Crawley
On The Wind, It Swirls, Writing Process, and Characters Talking to Each Other
The Phare (Winter 2022): Turns out my father is not a tree, after all
Ruby (2023): In the grip of fish (hybrid), at https://rubyliterarypress.com/issue-two-covid/
Microlit Almact (Fall 2022): My Sister Morgana Humming, at https://www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-almanac/morgana-humming-fox
The Phare (3/2022): Vertigo (flash), at https://www.thephare.com/ff/vertigo
Winner of WriteWords 2022 Competition (flash category).
Reflex (1/2022): Your Intemperate Life, at https://www.reflexfiction.com/your-intemperate-life-flash-fiction-by-valerie-fox/
Interviews
Lillian Dunn's interview with Fox and Ang in Apiary.
Interview with Lynn Levin and Valerie Fox by Susan Smith Nash and Rick Zanotti.
Books
Valerie Fox: Flash, Poetry, Reviews, New Flash Fiction Review Interviews
The Real Sky, a collaborative work with artist Jacklynn Niemiec (2019, Bent Window Books); if you are interested in buying this artists' book, contact Valerie at vf25@drexel.edu.
Insomniatic [poems], (2017, PS Books)
Reading Apollinaire (2015, selected poems, from Colectiile Revistei "Orizont Literar Contemporan" series)
Shale: Extreme Fiction for Extreme Conditions (2015, anthology, coedited with Arlene Ang, Nathan Leslie, and Susan Smith Nash)
The Glass Book (Texture Press, 2011)
Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (2008, poems/compilation with Arlene Ang, Texture Press)
The Rorschach Factory (2006, poems, Strawgate Books)
Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (2013, textbook cowritten with Lynn Levin, Texture Press)
The Red Room: Writings from Press 1 (2010, multi-genre anthology, Straw Gate Books)
Selected Links to Poems and Flash by Valerie Fox
New World Writing (12/27/2020): An episode between houses and jobs
Cabinet of Heed--Scroll down in Drawer 1 of Issue 37: Our Komodo (A Kind of Love)
MacQueen's Quinterly 2 (March 2020): Re-Gift List (Not)
Maryland Literary Review (Spring 2019): Sangen Jaya
"Blue Horses": New Flash Fiction Review 19.
"Andy Warhol Sightings" and "Playing with Dolls": Juked (2019) http://juked.com/2019/06/valerie-fox-two-shorts.asp
"Celebrity Crush Unplugged" and "Rules for the One-Armed, Two-Person Rowing Race: Cleaver 24 (2018) https://www.cleavermagazine.com/two-flash-pieces-by-valerie-fox/
"Sing to the tune of." The Cafe Irreal (2018).
"Signs and Adventures." The Potomac Journal (Winter 2016). At http://thepotomacjournal.com/issue17/Poetry/fox.html
"Kinds of Dramming," "Insomnia," "Time and Time-pieces" (Last Night's Dream)" and "An Imitation on Playing with Horns." SOUND:POETREE:: Fanzine (Spring 2016). At http://www.soundpoetree.com/mind-heart-check-in ("Imitation" is a collaboration with Arlene Ang.)
"Two Important Questions About Seahorses." Apiary 7 (2013).
"Memo Regarding your Future." Apiary (Fall 2012).
"Two Important Questions about Pornography." Painted Bride Quarterly (2015): 312-13.
"Incorruptible" and "For once" at http://www.texturepress.org/fox.html (Texture Press website "Gallery" page; originally published in Hanging Loose.)
Selected Links to Poems that are Collaborations by Arlene Ang and Valerie Fox
"The Brine, like Hay, Gets in My Clothes" (collaboration with Arlene Ang). Juked (January 2010).
"We Wrote a Letter to Jesus and He Told Us To Buy a New Car," "In Retrospect, 1984 made a fine sausage--" and "Visions of Lamb Cooked in Slight Brine," (collaborations with Arlene Ang). Qarrtsiluni Jan-April (2009). (Web and Print). At http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/03/05/we-wrote-a-letter-to-jesus/, http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/04/08/visions-of-lamb-cooked-in-slight-brine/
“Scarecrow Lists of Failures and Groceries Items.” Thrush (January 2015) (collaboration with Arlene Ang). Web. At http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/january-2015-arlene-ang--valerie-fox.html.
"Underlined in the victim's copy" and "There's a lot to do before your fall asleep"(collaborations with Arlene Ang). Poemeleon (Spring 2010). Web. At http://www.poemeleon.org/arlene-ang-valerie-fox/
Blogs
http://variablespace.wordpress.com
Variable Space: studying spatial relationships through writing, drawing, dance, and digital media
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Poems for the Writing: teaching tips, writing prompts
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https://collaboems.wordpress.com
Collaboems/Collaborations and Visual Poems (teaching blog for Drexel University writing classes, features vispo and collaborative writings)