VALERIE STAPLETON FOSTER taught high school English for thirty years and currently holds an adjunct faculty position at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona, teaching future teachers. Auth...view moreVALERIE STAPLETON FOSTER taught high school English for thirty years and currently holds an adjunct faculty position at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona, teaching future teachers. Author of a memoir, Dancing With a Demon, and a short story, “Loss,” published in the River Poets Anthology, she lives in Gilbert, Arizona with her husband, Tom, and welcomes conversations with her readers at riskofsorrow@icloud.com.view less