Biography
Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of thirteen
books. Her latest novel is After Eden. Other novels include Range of Light,
A Walking Fire, Winter's Edge, Blood Sisters, All Good Women, Movement:
A Novel in Stories, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction books include Abundant
Light, The Night Singers and Trespassing. Her collection of
essays is Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage.
In 2002, The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a Finalist for the
PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. Abundant
Light was a 2005 Fiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards.
Valerie Miner's work has
appeared in The Georgia
Review, Salmagundi, New Letters,
Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, Conditions, The T.L.S.,
The Women's Review of Books, The Nation and other journals. Her stories and essays are published in more
than sixty anthologies. Her
collaborative work includes books, museum exhibits as well as theatre. A number of her pieces have been dramatized
on BBC Radio 4.
She
has won fellowships and awards from The Rockefeller Foundation, The McKnight
Foundation, The NEA, The Jerome Foundation, The Heinz Foundation, The Australia
Council Literary Arts Board and numerous other sources. She has received Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia, India
and Indonesia.
Winner of a Distinguished
Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and
is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University.
She travels internationally giving
readings, lectures, and workshops. She
and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California.
Her website is www.valerieminer.com
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