Valerie Valdes

Valerie Valdes’s work has been featured in Uncanny Magazine, Fit for the Gods and Magic: the Gathering. Her debut novel Chilling Effect was published by Harper Voyager in September 2019 and Orbit UK in February 2020, with starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal. It was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was also named one of Library Journal’s best SF/fantasy novels of 2019. The trilogy is now complete with Prime Deceptions and Fault Tolerance. Her space fantasy novel, Where Peace Is Lost, was released in August 2023, and was named a 2024 Reading List Council honor title.

Valerie is co-editor of Escape Pod, and currently works as a freelance writer and copy editor. She is a graduate of the University of Miami and the Viable Paradise workshop and has taught classes and given lectures for Writer’s Digest, Clarion West and Georgia State University. She lives in Georgia with her husband, children and cats.