A seasoned technical writer, Valerie Bean has written features, profiles, and general-interest articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers, contributing content to a variety of online publications and blogging for three years for Metroland Media Group Ltd., a TorStar Digital property.

She is a published book author and an internationally published poet who resides outside Toronto, Canada.  Her business writing website is at www.valeriebeanonline.com, but you can also find her at many other online as well as print locations.

Valerie currently edits articles for Minor.Hockey.Life., an online resource of informative articles for minor hockey parents.

As Valerie Poulin, she has published poetry and creative non-fiction internationally in literary periodicals, micro-press journals, and anthologies.

Where A Creative Way Out of Work, a year-long creative writing project, provides an online home to (mostly) works of fiction and articles about fiction writing,  Another Writing Project allows for the publication—at will—of non-fiction articles, creative non-fiction work, and personal essays.

You can reach Valerie at vlpoulin (at) sympatico (dot) ca.