Literanista by Valerie Evans

I’m Valerie M. Evans, a writer, communications strategist, researcher, creative, gardener, and lifelong collector of stories, ideas, and projects. This channel is the home for all the things I’m exploring, making, learning, and thinking about. It's essays, experiments, discoveries, practical projects, research rabbit holes, conversations, and works in progress.

You’ll find videos about books, history, communications, culture and media, home and garden projects, creativity, research, chronic illness and aging, personal reinvention, and the occasional deep dive into whatever has captured my curiosity. Some of these pursuits already have names: Literanista, Coastal Carolina Garden and some do not.

I bring the perspective of an anthropologist, storyteller, digital strategist, longtime blogger, and perpetual researcher, with roots in New York and Puerto Rican culture and a life now unfolding by the beach on the South Carolina coast.