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K.A. VallerePoet & Critic & Editor
K.A. Vallere is an Oxford-trained writer, critic, and the author of the forthcoming chapbook A Bad Woman Learns to Speak (dancing girl press). Her work across genres investigates how meaning is shaped by form, omission, and visual-spatial logic. She is interested in language under research-led conditions of constraint: how speech emerges, fractures, or resists distortion within cultural, personal, and systemic frameworks.
Books
A Bad Woman Learns to Speak
Forthcoming from dancing girl press (2026–2027 series). A hybrid poetry and visual manuscript incorporating drawings, dramatic fragments, erasures, and prose poems.
Publications
Los Angeles Review
Forthcoming
The November White Eye
Beyond Words
Dreams Anthology, 2026
Forthcoming
REVIEWS & LITERARY CRITICISM‘I want more than what eyes see’: On Janne J. Baugher’s The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles,” Tupelo Quarterly, (forthcoming)
“‘Where the Shard Becomes Seed’: On Diana Cao’s Slipstream,”
Los Angeles Review (forthcoming)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES Artist-in-Residence Fellowship and Denis Diderot Grant,
Chateaux d’Orquevaux, 2027
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship,
Hôtel Saint Valiere, 2026
Film Poetry & Book trailersPoetry film offers a unique way to move beyond the constraints of a single medium. Combining lyrical text, visual imagery, voice, and sound allows each element to deepen and complicate the others, creating multiple layers of meaning. It gives the freedom to approach poetry as an immersive, sensory experience rather than something confined to the page. Through film, K.A. Vallere explores atmosphere, movement, rhythm, and ambiguity, inviting the audience not only to interpret the poem but to enter its world.
servicesIn addition to her creative work, K.A. offers a limited number of services for writers working on serious literary projects. Her approach is editorial, focusing on exploring structure, form, and symbolic coherence.
Services are offered selectively and by inquiry.