Valerie Kalos Anderson

Valerie Kalos Anderson lives in Colorado where she and her partner are raising their teenage daughter and son. She graduated from Grinnell College in 1989. Since growing into her 40’s, she has become an avid hiker, has climbed fifteen “14ers,” recently ran her first half-marathon, and is currently training for her first full marathon.  She is also in the final stages of editing her first book, “Riding Shotgun to St. Mary’s,” a fictionalized memoir about the ability to heal and take control over her own life as she coped with her parents’ deaths.