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Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books. Her new novel, Traveling with Spirits, will be published by Livingston Press in 2013. Other novels include After Eden, 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, India and Indonesia.
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
What's New
- Valerie gave a workshop and reading at Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago, Chile, in December, 2011
- Valerie has a piece, “The Whole Story,” in the current Southwest Review,
http://smu.edu/southwestreview/CurrentIssue.asp
- Her recent reviews include Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, in The Boston Globe, 20 November, 2011, http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/11/20/the-stranger-child-alan-hollinghurst/bVZ8er6rFZo2p3H4JnfQgO/story.html and Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim, in The Los Angeles Times, 14 August, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/14/entertainment/la-ca-tahmima-anam-20110814
Latest Book
After Eden, published by University of Oklahoma Press
"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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News and Events
Valerie Miner’s new novel, Traveling with Spirits, will be published by Livingston Press, pub date: 2013. Pre order from JWT@uwa.edu
2 March, 2012, AWP Conference, Chicago "Imagining the New Workshop," in panel about "On Reinvigorating the Creative Writing Workshop: Four Bold New Approaches" with Michael Martone, Robin Hemley, Ann Panning, and Steve Fellner.
19 March, 2012 "Gendered Words," Lecture at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
23-24 March, 2012, "Symposium in Creative Writing" lead by Valerie Miner, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
April, May, 2012 Residency Fellowship, Heinz Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland
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