Haiku Haven and Poet Express were created from the ashes of Skyline Magazines.  In a moment, you will understand what I'm trying to express, and how we happened upon the name  Poet Express. Self explanatory:  here at Poet Express, you are cordially welcomed to enjoy expressions of poets when you visit, often I hope, our place for poets to express!  We encourage new and established writers to join us. 

My name is Victoria Valentine.  I'm a writer and publisher from NY, USA.  Here's a short story that will kind of tell you who I am, and what I'm about.

I published Skyline Literary Magazines for about 4 years, starting in September of 2001. Skyline was overwhelmingly accepted by the community of literary arts in cities and states across the USA, and was shipped to some International regions.  

Skyline produced elegant, monthly magazines that were distributed nationwide by 3 professional distributors.  Unfortunately, a magazine cannot survive on reputation and sales alone.  We had no advertising, other than a few author ads that we priced at $25.00.  To bring a very beautiful, exciting and sad story to a climax, Skyline closed its doors last May, 2005, leaving behind a national distribution of 10,000 magazines per month.  Right afterward,  I took a job that actually paid me, and for the past year I have been happily working for a medical messaging company, providing world class customer service:)   

As the dust settled, I found myself in a 'regular' routine, missing writing, missing publishing, missing Skyline.  So........here we are today, June 1, 2006, and we've resurrected Skyline Literary Community, adding Poet Express and Haiku Haven web sites.  So maybe this isn't such a sad story after all.  Because here we are, today, back on track with Poet Express, Haiku Haven and the amazing Skyline Literary Community!

Here's my bio that I use for my own submissions, although I rarely submit my own work for publication anymore.  I'd rather publish yours!  As my good friend and house artist of Poet Express, Steve Cartwright, said when he heard that we are back online:  "The ink is in your blood, Victoria." Steve is right!  

Victoria Valentine is the founder, publisher and editor of Skyline Publications, which she created in September, 2001.  Skyline publishes multiple titles including Skyline Literary Magazine, SpinningS…intense tales of life, A Hudson View Poetry Digest, At Poetic Times Magazine.  Victoria is the co-author of At The Stroke Of Midnight, 24 Tales of Terror.  She also wrote lyrics for 5 songs included on the Eyes Of Ash CD performed by The Unintended of NY.

Other imprints developed by Victoria are Water Forest Press and Night Wind Publishing, book publishing.  She is the author of the 2007 children's story book, The Cutest Little Duckie, available on http://www.cutestduckiebook.com

Victoria resides in New York, USA.  She has been writing since childhood and through the years has gathered various literary and art credits.  She has been published online and in print magazines in the USA, UK, France, India, and in South Africa. Recent interview with Amibath Mitra @ Boliji.com