Valerie Guardiola is a visual artist and poet whose work incorporates the tradition of remembrance into daily life, through mundane imagery – where romanticism and mysticism meet.

 

As an artist, her goal is to represent peoples that are categorically left out of the art narrative. Working to represent women and people of color as vulnerable, powerful, intimate, and magical – almost other-worldly. 

 

Her poetry and essays have been published in Soul Anatomy, Red Cedar Review, and The Voices Project, among many others. She is a co-founder of the Emerging Artists Alliance of Monterey and published her second chapbook, Boomerang Thighs, in 2017.

 

Valerie is a life-long daughter of the West Coast and lives in California where she enjoys drinking overly-priced coffee, traveling, watching too much TNG, and creating...always creating.