Valerie Frankel

Sunnyvale, CA

Valerie Frankel

Sunnyvale, CA

Valerie Estelle Frankel has won a Dream Realm Award, an Indie Excellence Award, and a USA Book News National Best Book Award for her Henry Potty parodies. She's the author of five books on pop culture: From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey in Myth and Legend, Buffy and the Heroine's Journey, Katniss the Cattail: An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in The Hunger Games, Teaching with Harry Potter, and Harry Potter: Still Recruiting. Once a lecturer at San Jose State University, she's a frequent speaker on fantasy, myth, pop culture, and the heroine's journey. Learn more at www.HarryPotterParody.com.