Valerie Miner is an American novelist, journalist, and professor. Miner is the award-winning author of 14 books. Her most recent novel is Traveling with Spirits. 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 60 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 25 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.
Portrait by John Campbell
