Background
Laura Valeri was born in Piombino, Italy and immigrated to the United States; the daughter of Valerio and Anna (Cateni) Valeri.
2000
11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199, United States
From 1999 to 2000 Laura attended Florida International University, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing.
2002
Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
From 2000 to 2002 Laura Valeri was educated at the University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction Writing.
2013
Laura Valeri reads from her short story collection, Safe in Your Head.
2019
Laura Valeri
300 Hornidge Rd, Mamaroneck, NY 10543, United States
Laura Valeri attended Rye Neck High School.
New York, NY 10003, United States
Laura Valeri studied at New York University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.
(These stories grow through subtle shifts, the bad becomes...)
These stories grow through subtle shifts, the bad becomes not so bad, the worst livable. It is the saintly moments of unexpected understanding that shape the collection: one gigolo's lover picks up another at a bus stop and they agree on his worthlessness, the love-worn man reminds the newly divorced woman of her physical power, the estranged son shelters his father from an unexpected storm.
https://www.amazon.com/Things-Saints-Short-Fiction-Award/dp/0877458197/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Laura+Valeri&qid=1575556116&sr=8-3
2002
(Safe in Your Head is an epic story about war and love. It...)
Safe in Your Head is an epic story about war and love. It's about the ambitions that haunt us through decades as the ghosts of our ancestors thrive in our dreams, memories, and our most cherished hopes. Ever since he was a boy, Vittorio wanted to live in America. He remembers cases of chocolate and peanut butter dropping in parachutes from the sky. He remembers American military camps ringing with rock and roll. Then in 1978, as an adult and father of three, Vittorio moves his family to New York to escape the chaos that is Italy under the terrorism of the Red Brigades. But his mother in-law, Liliana, will have to wrestle with the most devastating loss since the death of her husband, Giorgio, who was a resistance fighter.
https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Your-Head-Laura-Valeri/dp/1622880110/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Laura+Valeri&qid=1575556116&sr=8-4
2013
(Mapping stories set in Europe and America, The Dead Still...)
Mapping stories set in Europe and America, The Dead Still Here skillfully paces through eleven short stories about friends-with-benefits typed relationships, vicious divorces and thievery, the loss of a child, the loss of a mother, and the Coast Guard and the Navy rescuing refugees from a bad storm at sea. Along with characters that are irrevocably locked in their heads, Valeri includes a guide on how to take the medication in “Prescription for Life”, which subtly points to the other hallucinatory narratives. This collection is at once provocative and lucid, and it offers various angles of characters looking for a relationship to hold.
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Still-Here-Laura-Valeri/dp/162288180X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Laura+Valeri&qid=1575556116&sr=8-1
2018
Laura Valeri was born in Piombino, Italy and immigrated to the United States; the daughter of Valerio and Anna (Cateni) Valeri.
Laura Valeri attended Rye Neck High School. Then, she studied at New York University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. From 1999 to 2000 she attended Florida International University, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. From 2000 to 2002 she was educated at the University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction Writing.
Laura Valeri began her career as an Instructor at Nova Southeastern University and the University of Iowa in 1999-2002. In 2002 she took the post of an adjunct professor at Broward Community College and Florida International University, where she served until 2003.
In 2003, Valeri joined Georgia Southern University in Statesboro as a temporary associate professor from 2003 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011 she was an assistant professor and from 2012 - an associate professor of Writing & Linguistics.
As the author, Laura Valeri wrote, "The Kind of Things Saints Do" in 2002, "Safe in Your Head" in 2013, "The Dead Still Here" in 2018. She has also been a contributor to periodicals, including USA Today, Gulf-stream, Big Bridge, Infinite Race, and Coastlines.
(Mapping stories set in Europe and America, The Dead Still...)
2018(These stories grow through subtle shifts, the bad becomes...)
2002(Safe in Your Head is an epic story about war and love. It...)
2013
Quotations:
"As a writer of fiction, my lifelong avocation has been to understand people, to dissect their sufferings and joys and find the cogs and gears beneath the surface".
"In my young mind, this is what I understand: baby touches floor = baby dies."
"My colleagues who teach creative nonfiction have done a very good job of teaching students techniques of immersion, as well as to identify ethical ambiguities involved in writing about others, but I feel that we fiction writers haven’t been quite as thorough in exploring the mine-filled intersections of fact and fiction, nor in equipping our students to make informed choices about the way they go about altering or warping actual events for the sake of story".