Valerie Miner

Valerie Miner (born in New York City) is an American novelist, journalist, and professor.[1] A dual US/UK citizen, she lives in San Francisco and Mendocino, California with her partner.[2]

Biography

Miner is the award-winning author of fifteen books inlcluding Bread and Salt: Short Fiction published in 2020 and Traveling with Spirits in 2013.[3][4] 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.

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. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her collaborative work includes books, museum exhibits as well as theatre. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch.

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, she has been on the faculty of Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, the University of Minnesota and Arizona State University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures and workshops. She and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California.

References
  1. "Excerpt from Master Storyteller Valerie Miner's New Collection Bread and Salt". San Francisco Bay Times. October 8, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  2. "Home". valerieminer.com.
  3. "Bread and Salt". Goodreads. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  4. "Traveling with Spirits". Goodreads. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
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