Professor
Laura Valeri is a writer, a writing consultant, an editor, and faculty in the Department of English at Georgia Southern University. She is the author of three story collections, a book of essays, and numerous works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry published in literary journals across the world.
Valeri’s debut collection of short stories, The Kinds of Things Saints Do, was an Iowa John Simmons Award winner, and a winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Award in Fiction. Her second collection of stories, Safe in Your Head, was a winner of the Stephen F. Austin literary prize in fiction and a finalist in various national contests. Her new collection of stories, The Dead Still Here, was published in summer 2018 with Stephen F Austin University Press, and her collection of essays, Dog Island, is forthcoming with Galaad Edizioni in Italy.
Laura is a Hambidge fellow and was a Walter E Dakins Fellow in Fiction with the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, where, with the help of her colleagues, she also created and currently edits the literary journal, Wraparound South.
Laura earned two MFAs in creative writing, the first from Florida International University as a generalist, and then with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (University of Iowa) for fiction. She earned her undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from New York University.
Her writing has won national contests and has appeared in various literary magazines, including in Waccamaw, Fiction Southeast, Temenos, Web Conjunctions, Gulfstream Magazine, Glimmer Train and many others. She also publishes nonfiction, poetry, and translations.
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About Laura E. Valeri
Laura Valeri is a writer, a writing consultant, an editor, and faculty in the Department of English at Georgia Southern University. She is the author of three story collections, a book of essays, and numerous works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry published in literary journals across the world.
Valeri’s debut collection of short stories, The Kinds of Things Saints Do, was an Iowa John Simmons Award winner, and a winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Award in Fiction. Her second collection of stories, Safe in Your Head, was a winner of the Stephen F. Austin literary prize in fiction and a finalist in various national contests. Her new collection of stories, The Dead Still Here, was published in summer 2018 with Stephen F Austin University Press, and her collection of essays, Dog Island, is forthcoming with Galaad Edizioni in Italy.
Laura is a Hambidge fellow and was a Walter E Dakins Fellow in Fiction with the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, where, with the help of her colleagues, she also created and currently edits the literary journal, Wraparound South.
Laura earned two MFAs in creative writing, the first from Florida International University as a generalist, and then with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (University of Iowa) for fiction. She earned her undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from New York University.
Her writing has won national contests and has appeared in various literary magazines, including in Waccamaw, Fiction Southeast, Temenos, Web Conjunctions, Gulfstream Magazine, Glimmer Train and many others. She also publishes nonfiction, poetry, and translations.
| Present | Faculty Member, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of English | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2017 | CLEC Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $1,500 | |
| 2017 | Faculty Service Grant for Wraparound South |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $1,531 | |
| 2015 | CLEC Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $250 | |
| 2014 | CLEC Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $3,000 | |
| 2014 | Faculty Service Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $400 | |
| 2014 | Faculty Travel Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $375 | |
| 2014 | South Arts |
| South Arts | |
| $2,000 | |
| 2013 | Faculty Service Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $2,026 | |
| 2011 | Faculty Service Committee Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $500 | |
| 2009 | Cultural Life Enrichment (CLEC) |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $1,000 | |
| 2009 | Cultural Life Enrichment (CLEC) |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $1,000 | |
| 2009 | Faculty Service Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $3,500 | |
| 2008 | Faculty Service Grant |
| Georgia Southern University | |
| $2,400 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2021 - Present | Co-Chair, International ERG, GSU | 2018 - Present | Director, Center for Undergraduate Research and Intellectual Opportunity (CURIO) | 2015 - Present | Chair, Brittany ‘Ally’ Harbuck Scholarship Committee, GSU | 2014 - Present | Member, Brannen Award, GSU | 2012 - Present | Managing Editor, Wraparound South – A Literary Journal | 2009 - Present | Member, Brittany ‘Ally’ Harbuck Scholarship Committee, GSU | 2020 - 2021 | Subcommittee Chair, Faculty Welfare Committee, GSU | 2019 - 2021 | Member, Faculty Welfare Committee, GSU | 2017 - 2018 | Member, AWP Conference Student Travel Award Committee, GSU | 2017 - 2018 | Chair, Faculty Governance Committee, GSU | 2016 - 2018 | Chair, Roy F. Powell Award Committee, GSU | 2015 - 2018 | Member, Faculty Governance Committee, GSU | 2009 - 2018 | Member, Roy F. Powell Award Committee, GSU | 2014 - 2015 | Chair, Brannen Award, GSU | 2013 - 2014 | Senate Alternate, Faculty Senate, GSU | 2012 - 2014 | Member, Campus Life Enrichment Committee (CLEC), GSU | 2009 - 2012 | Senator, Faculty Senate, GSU | 2010 - 2011 | Member, Student Media Advisory Board, GSU |
Honors and Awards
- Josephine Friedman/Gulf Stream Literary Award in Short Fiction (2001)
- Graduate Merit Fellowship, Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2001-2002)
- John Simmons Short Fiction Award (2002)
- John Gardner Award, Binghamton University (2003)
- Finalist, Glimmer Train Fiction Open (2007)
- Family Matters Competition, Glimmer Train (2007)
- Walter E. Dakins Fellow, Sewanee Writers Conference (2008)
- Fellow, Hambidge Artist Colony (2010)
- SFA Literary Contest Winner, Fiction Manuscript Contest (2012)
- Mermaids Who Create Residency (2014)
- Vittore Branca/Cini Foundation Researcher Residency (2017)
- Nominated for Best of Small Fictions by The Forge (2019)
- Nominated for Georgia Author of the Year - Fiction (2019)
- Nominated for Georgia Author of the Year - Memoir (2020)
Courses
- Creativity and The Writer (Online)
- Introduction to Creative Writing (Online)
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Fiction Workshop
- Advanced Fiction Workshop
- Creative Writing
- Creative Nonfiction
- Writing Screenplay Adaptations
- Writing the Memoir
- Advanced Fiction Writing (Online, Graduate)
- Advanced Screenwriting
- English 1101
- English 1102
- Advanced Rhetoric
- Rhetoric I
| 2000 - 2002 | M.F.A. in Fiction, University of Iowa | |
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| 1999 - 2001 | M.F.A. as a Generalist, Florida International University | |
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| 1984 - 1988 | B.A. in English Literature with a Creative Writing Concentration, New York University | |
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Contact Information
P.O. Box 8026
Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: (912) 478-5889
Office: Newton - Room 1119E
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