Ok So Be That Way (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781543129786)

L.J. Valente has been a published poet and author for over 24 years. After growing up in Natick, MA, L.J. Valente attended Vanderbilt University School of Engineering where his interests turned to writing. He spent the next few years traveling the United States writing poetry and short fiction. In 1999, he married a Turkish national and moved to Turkey, where he continued his writing as well as working as a translation editor for several publications. He returned to the US in 2014 and in 2015 jumped back into poetry writing "Like Playing with Lost Words" which was published in October 2015. He has since published 8 additional collections of poetry and two collections of short stories. Currently, he lives in Bluffton, SC