For this week’s Feature Friday post we’re getting to know Valorie K. Ruiz! Valorie oversees social media for Fiction International, along with organizing reading assignments for interns and volunteers.

Valorie K. Ruiz is a Xicana writer fascinated by language and the magic it evokes. In addition to being an editor for Fiction International, she is also Assistant Flash Fiction Editor for Homology Lit. You can follow her on twitter @Valorie_Ruiz or read more of her work on her website. Her short story “Laced up tongues” was shortlisted for the Cosmonauts Fiction Prize, and one of her flash pieces was published by New South Online. Her writing is also forthcoming from The Florida Review, Occulum, and Hayden’s Ferry Review among others.