Katy E. Valentine

Katy E. Valentine is a public scholar and owner of Soul Forge Coaching, empowering entrepreneurs and leaders to expand their spirituality and increase their impact on the world. She is the author of For You Were Bought with a rice: Sex, Slavery, and Self-Control in a Pauline Community and numerous articles on enslavement, embodiment, and transgender identities and the Bible. She recently published “Examining Scripture in Light of Trans Women’s Voices” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible. She is cochair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible program unit.