Valerie Lawson’s work has been published in Café Review, About Place Journal, The Catch, Maine Farms, and others. Lawson also performed poetry in the spoken word and Poetry Slam community in Boston and with Doc Brown’s Traveling Poetry Show. In 2018, Lawson edited and published the Maine Literary Award winning 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers.
Working with the Downeast Coastal Conservancy and with the help of the Maine Arts Commission, Lawson wrote about and created the video of Reversing Falls in Pembroke, Maine as part of Writing the Land, connecting protected spaces with poets.