Val lives in Perth, Western Australia.

She wrote scripts and songs for a theatre restaurant for 18 years.

She has had three children’s books published:

‘The School Photograph’

‘An Alphabet of Australian Animals’

‘What Little Dragons Do’. 

Poems, short stories and plays have been published in the NSW School Magazine and NZ School Journal.

She recently diversified into music and has a published book of children’s Christmas songs, ‘Ho! Ho! Ho! & Other Christmas Songs’, for which she composed the music and wrote the lyrics.

Val is the Poetry Coordinator for Creative Connections, an organisation where poets write poems to artworks created by artists with disabilities.