Creative Collaborator

Valley Haggard is the founder and director of Life in 10 Minutes, an online journal and press that provides a platform for writers of every experience level from all around the globe to write about their own lives...10 minutes at a time. The recipient of a 2014 Theresa Pollak Prize, a 2015 Style Weekly Women in the Arts Award and James River Writer's Emyl Jenkins Award for 2018, Valley has led local and international writing retreats and shares a writing center on Cary Street with Richmond Young Writers. Valley is the author of The Halfway House for Writers, Surrender Your Weapons: Writing to Heal, and There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things: a Memoir. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, son, cats, and dogs.