Valerie Kapp

After growing up in Richland, Pennsylvania, a small town surrounded by Amish farms and a community where your parents knew what you did that day before you got home for supper, Valerie Kapp attended college outside Philadelphia and Moorhead, Minnesota. She coached at the college level for a couple of years before completing her master's degree in Oregon. She finally landed in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, where she lives with her wife of forty years.

She worked in deafness, HIV/AIDS, and vocational rehabilitation. She ended her career as a research associate in the Substance Abuse Resources and Disability Issues (SARDI) program at Wright State University. In addition, she has served on the board of Trustees of the Deaf Community Resource Center and as was an adjunct instructor at Sinclair Community College Psychology and Interpreter Training Departments and Wright State University School of Medicine.

When she's not writing, you can find her puzzling, riding her Harley motorcycle, golfing with her wife and friends, visiting New York City to see Broadway plays, playing pickleball, and every Monday night at one of the houses of their Monday night social club, sharing a meal and laughter with ten other women.

Stay is Valerie's second book. Her first book, For a Lifetime, is about a woman's journey of redemption from burn victim to burn survivor and the roller coaster ride to determine whether to let go of the past or break free to love again.