About John Valadez
John Valadez is a writer and storyteller, and the author of The Plentiful — a novel rooted in silence, endurance, and the long road home. He earned his degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed a creative honors thesis. His poetry has appeared in Peregrine.
Much of The Plentiful is drawn from lived experience — a journey shaped by travel, recovery, guilt, and a search for meaning. Through fiction, John explores the quiet thresholds where survival becomes transformation.
He lives in South Jersey with his daughter and son.
“The last thing I remembered was her voice again, whispering not to stop until I crushed myself.”
— from The Plentiful
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