About the Author

Valentine Pierce is a poet and performance artist. Her creative and journalistic writing has been published throughout the U.S. and she has been featured on radio programs and cable television programs. Pierce has frequently produced her own shows, including “It’s Personal,” for which she received a grant from the NOJHF. In its review of the “From a Bend In the River" anthology, which included Pierce's, "Rivers of My Soul," the Times-Picayune called her one of the stalwarts of the New Orleans poetry scene. The poem was also choreographed by the Newcomb College for Women dance department for the inauguration of Tulane University’s president.

About the Book

"...Valentine shares that precious commodity we call truth. Her gift is given poetically and when we receive it, it is we who gain and increase within our souls, more knowledge, more wisdom and more beauty."

-- Yictove, author of Blueprint