Valerie Miner - Faculty

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Valerie Miner

Morning Workshop Faculty
Website: www.valerieminer.com

About

Valerie Miner is the award winning writer of 9 novels, 5 story collections and 2 books of non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Salmagundi, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, over 60 anthologies, and on BBC Radio 4. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she been on the faculty at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, etc.  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 received Fulbright Fellowships to Tunisia, India and Indonesia.

She also travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops.  She and her partner Helen live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California.

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