Valerie Miner (born in New York City) is an American novelist, journalist, and professor.
Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books. Her most recent novel is Traveling with Spirits. Her 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. Her collaborative work includes 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 had Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia and India. She has taught for over twenty-five years and won a Distinguished Teaching Award. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures and workshops.
Miner is now an artist-in-residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and a professor at Stanford University, contributing to the Feminist Studies Program and English Department.
Traveling with Spirits (2013)After Eden (2007)Abundant Light (2004)The Night Singers (2004)The Low Road (2001)Range of Light (1998)A Walking Fire (1994)Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage (1992)Trespassing and Other Stories (1989)All Good Women (1987)Winter’s Edge (1984)Murder in the English Department (1982)Movement, A Novel in Stories (1982)Blood Sisters (1981)Select honors and awards
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (Indonesia) 2009McKnight/Loft Artist Fellowship ($25,000), 2005–2006Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (Tunisia), 2004Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in Fiction, 2005Hugh J. Luke Award for Fiction, for “Percussion,” published in Prairie Schooner, Fall, 2003McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction, “Veranda,” Best Fiction in The Southwest Review, 2002McKnight Summer Fellow, 2002Finalist for PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award for The Low Road, 2002Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (January–June, 2000) in India.University College Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1999McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, Summer, 1998Visiting Research Associate, University of Edinburgh, International Social Sciences Institute, April and May, 1997"Master Artist," Atlantic Center for the Arts, March, 1997Jerome Foundation Travel Fellowship, 1995–1997Bush Foundation Sabbatical Supplement Award, 1996–1997N.E.A Mobile Residency (to give readings and lectures in South East Alaska), Spring, 1996McKnight Research Fellowship, 1994–1997Common Rhythms Fellow, Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation, Centrum Foundation, 1993–1994McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1993Australia Council Literary Arts Grant, 1988PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, 1986 Residency Fellowship, Fondazione Bogliasco, Liguria Study Center, April/May, 2013Residency Fellowship, Fundación Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain, February, 2013Residency Fellowship, Heinz Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, 2012Residency Fellowship, Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, WA, 2012Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship, May, 2014, May, 2011, May, 2010, March, 2008, March, 2007, April–May, 2004, May–June, 200l, January–February, 1995, April, 1990Residency Fellowship, Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, 2009MacDowell Residency Fellowship, July–August, 2002, May, 2003, September–October, 2004University of Minnesota Sabbatical Supplement, January–December, 2004Yaddo Writing Fellowship, 1999Heinz Foundation Fellowship, Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian, Scotland, Fall, 1996Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio Study Center, Italy, July–August 1994Fellow, Leighton Colony, Banff Arts Centre, Canada, July–August 1993Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center, May–June 1992
