Anne Valley-Fox was born in Paterson, New Jersey, raised in Santa Monica, California, and schooled at the University of California, Berkeley, during the Free Speech Movement. Her poetry collections are How Shadows Are Bundled, POINT OF NO RETURN, Fish Drum 15, and Sending the Body Out. Her work has been anthologized in Generations: A Centenary of American Poets (1919-2019), Nuova antologia di poesia americana, POEM: Poets on (an) Exchange Mission, Baby Beat Generation, and In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets after 1960. Her prose publications include Your Mythic Journey (with Sam Keen) and five oral-history collections from the New Deal's New Mexico Federal Writers' Project (coeditor, Ann Lacy). In 2016 she received a William Matthews Poetry Prize from the Asheville Poetry Review. A life-long practitioner of the barefoot sports, swimming and hatha yoga, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
