Valerie Wetlaufer was born and raised in Iowa. Since then, she has lived in Vermont, France and Florida. Currently, she resides in Salt Lake City among the aspens, where she is a doctoral fellow in English at the University of Utah. She holds an MA in Teaching from Bennington College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida State University. Her chapbook
Scent of Shatter was published in 2010 by Grey Book Press. She blogs occasionally at
valeriewetlaufer.com