Val Brelinski

Val Brelinski is a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, where she was also a Jones Lecturer in fiction writing. She received an MFA from the University of Virginia, and her writing has been published in such magazines as VQR, The Rumpus, Fiction, Confrontation, and Green Mountains Review. She received prizes for her fiction from The San Francisco Chronicle, The Charlottesville Weekly, and The Boise Weekly, and was also a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She currently teaches creative writing at Stanford's Continuing Studies Program.