Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff
Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff (born Valorie Anne Broadhurst, July 5, 1954, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.; formerly published as Valorie Breyfogle), American higher education marketing, communication, and grant writing professional, writer, and poet writing haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, and rengay widely published, anthologized and translated into other languages. Tsugigami, a collection of linked verse coauthored (2018) with Connie R Meester, was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Book Award and received First Place in the Marianne Bluger Book and Chapbook Awards from Haiku Canada. Resides in Dubuque, Iowa.