Valarie Hastings
Valarie Hastings has published her work previously in Literary Mama and is also published, or soon to be published in Paterson Literary Review, The New Guard, San Diego Poetry Annual, Crab Creek Review, and Marine Poetry Center Anthology, among others. She recently won Honorable Mention in the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize and the Knightville Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Crab Creek Poetry Prize. She is an attorney and lives in San Francisco.