Valerie was born and raised in Botwood,
Newfoundland & Labrador. She worked for the
Department of Forestry for almost twenty years.
Even during that time, she did as much
creatively as her circumstances allowed.
For example, Valerie spent a season with the
Northcliff Drama Club in Grand Falls,
Newfoundland & Labrador where she played the
part of Catherine in the play ‘A Book of
Murder’, performed at The Arts and Culture
Centre.
Through the years, Valerie has created several
characters, writes her own stand-up routines for
them, and performs at local events.
Biography
Valerie’s stage play, ‘A Friend’s Lament’ was performed
at the 2013 public festival in her home town of Fortune
Harbour, Newfoundland & Labrador and played to sold
out audiences.
In 2010 Flanker Press, published her first novel ‘Harbour
of my Tomorrows’. The novel tells the story of John
Gavin (the great grandfather of her husband, Joe) from
the age of seventeen in Ireland, to eighty-five, the day he
died in Newfoundland.
Valerie has two sons.
Jude lives in Calgary
and Lloyd resides in
Nova Scotia. She also
has a step-daughter,
Maria, living in St.
John’s, Newfoundland
& Labrador.
Valerie and her
husband Joe have lived
in Fortune Harbour for the past twenty-two years - Joe’s
home town.