Heather Valencia is a Native American Dreaming Woman of Cherokee blood and Yaqui tradition. She is internationally renowned as an artist and author of Queen of Dreams: The Story of a Yaqui Dreaming Woman. She is a shamaness, a visionary and a teacher. Heather lived and worked for many years at Pasqua Yaqui Pueblo with her husband Anselmo Valencia Tori(4-21-1921 to 5-2-1998), who was the ancestral chief of the Yaqui Nation.

Heather was born March 20, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey. She grew up along the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain's boyhood home. In 1967, she graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence with a Master of Arts degree from the Bauhaus School of Design. She has one son, Robert Hageman, and two granddaughters, Stephanie Amber and Miki Savanna.

Heather considers herself to be a member of the Reductionist School of Art. In 1992, Heather began art studies with internationally respected artist, author, and teacher E. J. Gold, founder of the Reductionist School. Her first one woman show was "Doorways to Other Worlds" in 1993, at the Center for the New Age in Sedona, Arizona. Her first international show was at the Foundation for the Study of Objective Art in Toronto, Canada, in 1996. She has participated in group exhibitions with members of the Grass Valley Graphics Group since 1993. Her paintings are in private collections throughout the world.

She has led workshops and dream circles around the globe and has participated in dream work with the indigenous peoples and eternal voyagers of Australia, Mexico, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and South America.