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Valerie Miner

Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books. Her new novel, Traveling with Spirits, is forthcoming from Livingston Press. 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's work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The Nation and other journals. Her stories and essays are published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch. She has won many fellowships and awards including from The Rockefeller Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The NEA, The Jerome Foundation and The Heinz Foundation. She will be doing writing residencies at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland and Hedgebrook in Washington. 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.