Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books.  Her new novel, Traveling with Spirits,  published 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. 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 Miner’s work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Salmagundi, New Letters, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, 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 work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch.  In addition to single-authored projects, she has collaborated on books, museum exhibits as well as theatre. 

                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 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.  She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops.  She and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California.  Her website is www.valerieminer.com

Website: www.valerieminer.com

Publications

• TRAVELING WITH SPIRITS, a novel , Livingston Press (September 10, 2013)
• AFTER EDEN, a novel , University of Oklahoma Press (April 1, 2007)
• ABUNDANT LIGHT, Short Fiction , Michigan State University Press (April 1, 2004)
• THE NIGHT SINGERS AND OTHER STORIES , Five Leaves Press, Nottingham, England (January 1, 2004)
• THE LOW ROAD: A SCOTTISH FAMILY MEMOIR , Michigan State University Press (September 1, 2001)
• RANGE OF LIGHT, a novel , Zoland Press (April 1, 1994)
• A WALKING FIRE, novel , State University of New York Press (June 7, 1992)
• RUMORS FROM THE CAULDRON, essays , University of Michigan Press (June 1)
• TRESPASSING AND OTHER STORIES , Methuen (May 6, 1989)
• ALL GOOD WOMEN, novel , Methuen (April 11, 1987)
• WINTER'S EDGE , Methuen and Crossing Press (March 6, 1984)
• MURDER IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT , Women's Press, Methuen, Crossing, (April 5, 1982)
• MOVEMENT AND OTHER STORIES , Crossing Press, Methuen, MSU Press (April 2, 1982)
• BLOOD SISTERS, novel , Women's Press, Methuen, Crossing, MSU Press (May 1, 1981)

Awards

• Fellowship, Fondazione Bogliasco, Italy(2013)
• Fellowship, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain(2013)
• Fellowship, Hedgebrook(2012)
• Fellowship, Hawthornden Castle(2012)
• Fulbright (Specialist) to Indonesia(2009)
• McKnight Artist Fellowship (2005-2006)(2006)
• Fulbright (Specialist) to Tunisia(2004)
• Fulbright Senior Scholar to India 6 months(2000)

Employment

• artist-in-residence and professor at Stanford University (January 2006 - )
• professor at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (August 1992 - December 2005)
• associate faculty at University of Alaska, Anchorage, MFA Program (July 2008 - )

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction