Val Lotz

author

Val Lotz has lived in numerous places but considers Colorado her home. She started writing stories for her friends when her mom bought her a Brother typewriter at a yard sale when she was nine. She published her first story, “We Danced in the Sun,” in The Maverick Press when she was a Junior in high school. Val always thought she would become the next Judy Blume or Robert Cormier, but life as an educator at the high school and college level is more demanding than she thought, but even more rewarding than she imagined. She still writes and aspires to publish young adult novels, but she also loves to write lesbian romantic comedies in a similar vein to the works of Robin Alexander, without the Southern flare. Ripples was her first submission to an anthology.