Three continents converge and meet in Valentina de Portu: America, Europe, and Asia. An American writer raised in France and Japan, Ms. de Portu brings intimate personal knowledge of foreign cultures to bear on her stories. On this website, you will find samples of her work, including the opening chapter of her début novel for which she is seeking representation.
While living in Paris and Tokyo, Ms. de Portu learned French, Latin, German, English, Japanese, and Spanish in rapid succession. After completing her basic education in Japan, she came to the United States to earn her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
Working for years as an educator and editor of foreign languages and psychology at major publishing companies like McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, and John Wiley & Sons, Ms. de Portu garnered the experience necessary to open her own management consulting practice in New York City. With clients in architecture, interior design, and property management as well as in her prior specialty of publishing, Ms. de Portu has proved that management skills are transferable among vastly different industries, just as she has bridged the gap between cultures in the past and continues to bring worlds together in her writing today.
