Valerie Perreault

Valerie Perreault is a poet and visual artist. Born an only child into a military family in New Jersey, she grew up in Wisconsin and Illinois. She graduated from the Art Institute of Dallas, worked in Austin and Boston, lived some years aboard a silboat, and has settled in the Florida Keys. She has owned an art gallery, been a bartender, an infomercial scriptwriter, an editor for the Texas Governor's Media Corps, and a ballroom dance instructor. She has permanent art installations worldwide including, The South Beach Ritz Carlton, Hotel Saint Elm, Royal Caribbean Cruises and The Summit Club, Las Vegas. This is her first book.