Bruce, Valerie Norment: - Valerie writes from the heart's edge-where memory meets truth, and language dares to say what silence won't. A storyteller shaped by resilience, she weaves poetry and spoken word that hold space for the raw, the tender, and the beautifully unfinished. Her work explores love, loss, identity, and the quiet bravery of becoming. She believes in the power of words to heal, haunt, and ultimately-set us free.