
Valorie Grace Hallinan is a writer, poet, and consulting clinical librarian. She produces From Where I Stand, an audio nature series featured on Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments. Her work has appeared in Great Lakes Review, Origins, Library Journal, and other publications. A former editor of educational books for children, Valorie founded the blog Books Can Save a Life, where she features fiction and nonfiction with a strong humanitarian bent and a vision for how we might bring about a better future.