Valentine Sargent is the Communications and Editorial Assistant for the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) at PEN America. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and has a history of working with international companies in the editing, publishing, and journalism sectors. She holds an MFA from Chatham University where she studied creative writing and was awarded The Fourth River Editorial Fellowship. As a fiction writer, her work has been published in various literary magazines. She is based in New York City.
