Aileen Valca is a writer and musician. Her mother is American and her father is Italian. She grew up in Parma, Italy, and still lives there now, but she has travelled around and lived in the States as well. She has a masters degree in Comparative Literature and a passion for writing poetry, prose and songs.
Jeffrey is the author of three books of poetry: At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered (Salmon Press February 2019), Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize. His many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and the American Literary Review poetry prize. His poems have garnered 21 Pushcart nominations. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Levine is founder, Artistic Director, and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award‐winning independent literary press located in the historic NORAD Mill in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts.
