Alice Bingham Gorman is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She earned an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in 2005 and received an Honorary PhD in Fine Arts from the Memphis College of Art. Her writing has been published in Vogue, O, the Oprah Magazine, O’s Little Book of Love and Friendship, The Louisville Review, and countless regional periodicals and art publications. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, she divides her time between Maine and Florida. Valeria Vose is her first novel.

In the 1970s South, Valeria Vose’s life is not as she expected. Raised to be a wife and mother in a closed society with traditions that have blinded her from her own potential and her desire to be an artist, she is unprepared for a life-altering crisis. Then, just when she’s on the brink of forty, her eighteen-year marriage is shattered by her husband’s infidelity and his lover’s attempted suicide. Searching for direction, Valeria turns to an Episcopal priest-and spins into a clandestine love affair that results in abuse and betrayal. Ultimately, however-despite her disillusionment and pain-she picks herself up and embarks on a course that leads to personal, creative independence.

Relentlessly honest in its internal observations, rich in detail of time and place, Valeria Vose shows that it is triumph of the spirit that wins in the end.