Vallen Courte writes emotionally rich, character-driven fiction about the ties that shape us—family, memory, grief, and the quiet moments that echo long after they’ve passed. Her stories blend tenderness with gritty honesty, exploring how love and loss carve their marks on a life.

A retired RN, avid reader, and lifelong daydreamer, she eventually stopped trying to hold in the stories that haunted her brain and started putting them on the page. She brings deep empathy and lived experience to every character she writes.

When she isn’t writing, she’s training dogs or curled up with a book and the one very spoiled dog who owns her heart. She lives in Louisiana, fueling her work with coffee that’s heavy on cream and sugar—because life has already offered enough bitterness and always chasing the next story that refuses to let her go.