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Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of thirteen books.  Her new novel, After Eden, is published in the “Literature of the American West Series” by the University of Oklahoma Press. 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.

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 had Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia and India.

Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now an artist-in-residence and professor at Stanford University.  She travels internationally giving readings, lectures and workshops.  She and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California. 

Images from an article about Valerie teaching creative writing at Zakir Hussain College. Hindustan Times City, Monday, February 26, 2007

 

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NEWS AND EVENTS


November 5, 2008, 5.45 - 7.00 pm.
"Caught in the Creative Act Series"
Valerie Miner reads from and discusses After Eden
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LATEST BOOK


After Eden, A Novel - cover

After Eden, published by University of Oklahoma Press, Spring, 2007.

After Eden offers a compelling narrative enriched by lyrical passages of stunning beauty.  I found myself marvelling at Miner's writerly gifts and the spiritual strength that underlies the novel.  I have no doubt about it: After Eden is a necessary novel for the 21st Century."—Pablo Medina.



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