Valentine Sargent is the Literary Awards Coordinator at PEN America. She resided in Phoenix, Arizona with a background in editing, publishing, and journalism with international companies. Her fiction has been published in various literary magazines.
Sargent holds an MFA from Chatham University where she studied creative writing and was awarded The Fourth River Editorial Fellowship.
My novels are always, in some way, a celebration of literature itself.
It’s about a person who, like all of us, gets angry but is also capable of forgiveness and love. A character who doesn’t shoot, who doesn’t fulfill the duel’s expected outcome.
I have come to understand that, in some ways, everything passes, and the crisis facing Afghanistan will also pass.
