About Valerie Korinek Valerie Korinek is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. Books by Valerie Korinek Prairie Fairies A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 by (author) Valerie Korinek Roughing it in the Suburbs Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties by (author) Valerie Korinek