Professional:

Valentine Pratt - Editorial, Creative, & Digital Media Specialist

With six years of experience in cultural institutions and digital media, I've developed a broad skill set, including guiding social media strategy and crafting compelling copy for various platforms. My expertise extends to composing blog posts, web copy, ad copy, and podcast scripts, as well as digital audio production.

I love using language to reach new audiences and create meaningful connections, a passion illustrated by my published poems, essays, and interviews with authors and artists. This background has given me a broad perspective and a versatile writing style, enabling me to create impactful and engaging content for various platforms and audiences.

I've thrived in fast-paced, start-up, and results-driven environments, consistently delivering creative solutions and measurable outcomes. I'm always looking for innovative ways to connect with audiences and drive brand success.

Creative:

V Conaty is a poet and playwright from Alabama based in New York. They produced the podcast Commonplace: Conversations With Poets, founded by Rachel Zucker, and guest-hosted conversations with early-career and debut poets from 2021-2023. They founded Bomb Cyclone, a journal of ecopoetics and mixed media art, and published genre-bending work responding to ongoing environmental crises from 2018-2020.

Find their work online and in the anthologies We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books) and Queenzenglish.mp3: Poetry | Philosophy | Performativity (Roof Books). Their writing has garnered support from Brooklyn Poets and Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Photo credits: 2020, Allya Yourish