Brief Bio
Valerie Wallace’s debut poetry collection House of McQueen (March 2018) was chosen by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry. In their starred review Publishers Weekly said that Wallace created “…a literary seance…serving as a scholar of and medium for the late iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen….” Her work was chosen by Margaret Atwood for the Atty Award, and she has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Award in Poetry, as well as many grants to support her work, for which she is extremely grateful.
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Videos
Interview with Leonard Zawadski, reading three poems
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Valerie reading “Small Seams”
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Valerie reading “House of McQueen”
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Valerie reading “McQueen’s Bop with the Interviewer”
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Reading from HOUSE OF MCQUEEN for Chapman University’s Tabula Poetica Series
Lecture at Chapman University – Aesthetics of Obsession
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Translating Fashion into Poetry
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