Valerie Perreault is a poet and visual artist. Her work is a form of story telling, often dealing with personal and ancestral folklore, fragmented and mystical realities, absurdity, and the humor of living in the modern Western cultural story.

Born an only child into a military family in New Jersey, she grew up in Wisconsin and Illinois. She graduated from the Art Institute of Dallas, worked in Austin and Boston, lived some years aboard a sailboat, and has settled in the Florida Keys. She has owned an art gallery, been a bartender, an infomercial scriptwriter, an editor for the Texas Governor’s Media Corps, and a ballroom dance instructor.

She is the winner of the 2024 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry and her book, Neon Pastoral, will be published in 2025.

Her visual art lives in private collections across the globe and has been featured in GOOP, Hia Magazine, Buzzfeed and PBS Art Loft, among others. She also has permanent installations in several high-end resorts and public spaces including Royal Caribbean Cruises, The South Beach Ritz Carlton, Tommie Austin, Intercontinental Miami, Casa Marina Resort Key West, Hotel St. Elm, Hawks Cay Resort, the Port of San Diego, Parkline Miami, and Kea Lani, Maui.

She is a finalist for the New Letters Literary Awards in poetry, received an honorable mention in the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, a fellowship recipient of the SLS Unified Literary contest in Lithuania and Kenya, and a scholarship recipient to the Palm Beach Poetry Festival and The Fine Arts Work Center.  Recent writing can be found in Zone3, Swamp Ape Review, Bluestem, Delmarva Review and Orange Coast Review.