Valerie Bence

An ex-librarian and researcher, Valerie finished a doctorate in her mid-fifties. Wondering if she had an imagination, she moved from academic to creative writing, completing a Poetry MA at Manchester Met University’s Writing School in 2017. A year’s mentoring with an independent press followed. She works mainly with artworks but writes ekphrastic poems in its broadest sense, encompassing truth, memory, place and time.