Valarie Massie Watersun

Valarie Massie Watersun: Valarie is a novelist and playwright, and an award-winning journalist, author and poet. Her novel, The Quality of Blue, was released in 2004. A play, Truman’s Word, was first produced in 1993 by the Women’s History Project and directed by Broadway producer Maxine Fox. Watersun has received three Virginia Press Association awards, and her journalistic work has been featured in Nelson County Times, Charlottesville/Albemarle Observer, Albemarle Magazine, Inside UVA, Emory & Henry Alumni Magazine, and Virginia Review. She has a book review column in The Wishing Well magazine. She has edited two books and done editorial work for several publications. Her fiction has appeared in hundreds of publications, and she has won honors from Writer's Digest, Muse Magazine, Writers in Virginia, The Virginia Writers Club, Piedmont Writing Institute, and Writers of the Future. Her poetry has appeared in Lynchburg Magazine, The Wishing Well, Muse Magazine, Witness to the Bizarre, Worlds of Surrealism, Emerald Isle, and several online sites. In the 2005 Virginia Writers Club writing competition, one of her poems won first place at the chapter level and third place at the state level. She has taught creative writing and journalism to young people and judged their writing. She is currently employed as Editorial Services Coordinator for the scientific journal Clinical Chemistry. Watersun is prepared to talk about any of the types of writing with which she has experience. She can be reached at P.O. Box 4314, Charlottesville, VA, 22905; by telephone at 434-409-1679; or via e-mail. You also are invited to visit her website.