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Valerie Hotchkiss

Valerie Hotchkiss is head librarian and professor of English and Book Studies at Oberlin College. She has written several books on cultural history in areas such as medieval transvestism (Clothes Make the Man), doctrinal history, and the history of books and printing. She is now writing more fiction and currently working on a novella, a screenplay, and a fictional non-fiction book.

Published works

Short Fiction
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Money Machines

Valerie Hotchkiss

We were poor, but hopeful. Two students on scholarships without parental support, dreaming of bright futures. We had not known wealth as children, and our poverty did not oppress us. We married ou ...  [+]