Valerie Miner

Valerie Miner is an American novelist, journalist, and professor.

Biography

Miner has written more than a dozen books, and her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Salmagundi, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, Conditions, TLS, Women's Review of Books, 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 collaborative work includes books, museum exhibits and theatre. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch.
Miner was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 1990 and in 2005. The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a finalist for the PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. She has won fellowships and awards from The Rockefeller Foundation, Fondazione Bogliasco, The Brown Foundation, Fundación Valparaiso, The McKnight Foundation, The NEA, The Jerome Foundation, The Heinz Foundation, The Australia Council Literary Arts Board and numerous other sources. She has had Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia, India and Indonesia.
Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, Miner has been on the faculty of Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, the University of Minnesota and Arizona State University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures and workshops. She taught at the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference.

Publications

Blood Sisters Movement: A Novel in Stories Murder in the English Department Winter's Edge All Good Women Competition: A Feminist Taboo? Trespassing Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage A Walking Fire Range of Light The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir Abundant Light After Eden The Night SingersTraveling with Spirits Bread and Salt: Short Fiction

''The Roads Between Them''