Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Valerie Nieman  

Valerie Nieman is the author of novels and short story and poetry collections. Her novel In the Lonely Backwater won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award and was a Foreword Indies Book of the Year finalist. Her critically acclaimed work includes To the Bones and Blood Clay. She has held a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship. She is a professor emerita at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She is also a former journalist.