K.A. Vallere is the author of the forthcoming chapbook A Bad Woman Learns to Speak (dancing girl press, 2026–2027 series). She works across genres, including recent projects in poetry, hybrid forms, literary criticism, and the essay. She graduated with distinction from the University of Oxford’s Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing in 2026. Ms. Vallere has been selected for artist residencies at Château d'Orquevaux, Hôtel Sainte Valière, and beamARTS. Her poetry has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Superlative Literary Journal, and Canyon Voices, while her criticism and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from the Los Angeles Review and Tupelo Quarterly. Her work will appear in the forthcoming Beyond the Words: Dreams anthology, due for publication in 2026. She was also interviewed for In Superlative Conversation, the podcast of Superlative Literary Journal. In 2026, she completed an internship with Tupelo Press and attended the Tupelo Manuscript Conference as a scholar. Originally from Poland, she writes in English and is a member of the UK Society of Authors.
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K. A. Vallerehttps://www.kavallere.com | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/k.a.vallere/
Writer, poet, and critic working across poetry, fiction, criticism, and hybrid forms,
with a practice shaped by omission, visual-spatial logic, and language under constraint.
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PUBLICATIONS—BOOKS
A Bad Woman Learns to Speak — forthcoming chapbook, dancing girl press (2026–2027 series)
POETRY PUBLICATIONS–LITERARY JOURNALS & ANTHOLOGIES
“Sun-Glass,” Beyond Words: Dreams Anthology, 2026
“Burning Haibun,” Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 37, 2026
“Late November White Eye,” The Superlative, 2026
“Bad Woman,” Canyon Voices, Fall 2025
“My Butcher,” Canyon Voices, Fall 2025
“Monkey Shadow,” Canyon Voices, Fall 2025
REVIEWS & LITERARY CRITICISM
“‘I want more than what eyes see’: On Janne J. Baugher’s The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles,” Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 38 (forthcoming)
“‘The Pathogen Was the Need to Know’: On Jennifer Militello’s Identifying the Pathogen: Poems,” Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 38
“‘Where the Shard Becomes Seed’: On Diana Cao’s Slipstream,” The Los Angeles Review (forthcoming)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship and Denis Diderot Grant, Château d’Orquevaux, 2027
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, beamARTS, 2027
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Hôtel Saint Valiere, 2026
EDUCATION
University of Oxford, (2024–2026)
Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing— Distinction
Prior Oxford Courses Completed: Writing Lives (2023); Getting Started in Creative Writing (2022)
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Tupelo Press Manuscript Retreat, Château de Détilly, France, 2026
Selected Participant & Scholarship Recipient
Threshold Retreat Series, Chateau de la Napoule
Awakening the Inner Visionary
Rediscovering the Senses: Poetic Exploration, Art, & Film
PocketMFA, November 2025 – Present
Faculty Advisor: Kristina Marie Darling
Concentration: hybrid text-image forms, symbolism, and spatial poetics
Tupelo Press Manuscript Conference, January 2026
Scholarship Award Recipient
Tupelo Press Internship Program, 2026 – Present
Site Supervisors: Kristina Marie Darling, Kirby Ewald, & Kirsten Miles
Concentrations: Book Publicity and Course Adoptions
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Symbolism
European cultural imagery
Visual-text relations
Hybrid forms
Sound and spatial patterning
Embodied narrative
Visual composition
CURRENT PROJECTS
A Bad Woman Learns to Speak — full-length poetry manuscript in development, expanding the forthcoming dancing girl press chapbook into a book-length collection of poetry and hybrid work.
Echoes From Beyond the Wall — literary political thriller novel with a dual narrative arc examining resistance, complicity, and love under systemic epistemic distortion.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member, Society of Authors (2025–present)
London Writers’ Salon (2025-present)
REFERENCES
Available upon request.