VALERIE MINER Email: [email protected]; Home Phone: 415-374-7071; Cell Phone: 612-825-7440 www.valerieminer.com Postal Address: Stanford University, Clayman Institute, Attneave House, 589 Capistrano Way, Stanford, CA 94305-8640 Books The Roads Between Them, Novel-in Progress, fourth draft. Bread and Salt: Short Stories, Whitepoint Press, 2020 Traveling with Spirits (novel). Livingston: Livingston Press, Aug/Sept., 2013. 304 pages. After Eden (novel). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Spring, 2007. 248 pages. Abundant Light (short stories). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004. 191 pages. The Night Singers (short stories). Nottingham: Five Leaves Press, 2004. 200 pages; Re-issued New York: Open Road Media (paperback, electronic and audio rights), 2014. The Low Road (cross-genre narrative). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001. 259 pages. Paperback published 2002. Range of Light (novel). Cambridge: Zoland Press, 1998. 227 pages. Re-issued New York: Open Road Media (paperback, electronic and audio rights), 2014. A Walking Fire (novel). Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. 254 pages. Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. 281 pages. Re-issued New York: Open Road Media (paperback, electronic and audio rights), 2014. Trespassing and Other Stories. London: Methuen; Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1989. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 239 pages. All Good Women (novel). London: Methuen; Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1987. 464 pages. Re-issued New York: Open Road Media (paperback, electronic and audio rights), 2014. Winter's Edge (novel). London: Methuen, 1984; New York: Feminist Press, 1985. 184 pages. ---. (In German translation.) An der Schwelle zum Winter. Munich: Droemersche Verlagsantalt, 1988. Murder in the English Department (novel). London: Women's Press, 1982; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983; Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1985; London: Methuen, 1988. 169 pages. Re-issued New York: Open Road Media (paperback, electronic and audio rights), 2014 Movement, A Novel in Stories. New York: Crossing Press, 1982; London: Methuen, 1985. 193 pages. Re-issued New York: Open Road Media (paperback, electronic and audio rights), 2014. Blood Sisters (novel). London: Women's Press, 1981; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982; London: Methuen, 1988; East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 206 pages. ---. (In Turkish translation.) Kankardesim, Askim. Istanbul: Gendas A.S., 1998. ---. (In Danish translation.) Blodsostre. Copenhagen: Hekla, 1984. 1 Available on Audible.com as of 1 January, 2015 All Good Women Movement Murder in the English Department Range of Light Co-Authored Books/Script Co-adaptor (with Kate McAll) of five part drama series based on The Low Road. Aired BBC Radio 4, 8-12 August, 2005, numerous subsequent airings. Co-author (with Mary Rockcastle) of "Imagine a World Without Winter," a multi-media performance piece. Co-editor (with Helen E. Longino). Competition: A Feminist Taboo? New York: Feminist Press, 1987. 260 pages. ---. (In German translation.) Konkurrenz. Berlin: Frauenoffensive, 1991. Co-author (with Zoe Fairbairns, Sara Maitland, Michele Roberts and Michelene Wandor). Tales I Tell My Mother: A Collection of Feminist Short Stories. Short Fiction. London: Journeyman Press, 1978; Boston: South End Press, 1980. 161 pages. ---. (In Swedish translation.) Sagor för Lilla Mamma. Stockholm: Arbetarkultur, 1980. ---. (In Dutch translation.) Verhalen van Vijf Dochters. Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1980. Co-author (with Zoe Fairbairns, Sara Maitland, Michele Roberts and Michelene Wandor). More Tales I Tell My Mother: Feminist Short Stories. Short Fiction. London: Journeyman Press, 1987. 203 pages. Co-author (with Myrna Kostash, Melinda McCracken, Erna Paris and Heather Robertson). Her Own Woman: Profiles of Ten Canadian Women. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975; Halifax: Formac, 1984. 212 pages. Stories, Essays and Articles Published in The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Triquarterly, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, New Letters, Quarterly West, Virginia Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, American Voice, New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Village Voice, The Nation, Conditions, The Economist, New Statesman and other journals. Stories broadcast on BBC, Radio Four, as well as in Eire, Belgium and the Netherlands. Work collected in over 60 anthologies. Academic Appointments 2005–present, artist-in-residence, professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2017, 2020, Faculty, Stanford in Paris, Fall Quarter, 2017 2015, Faculty, Stanford in Santiago, Chile. Fall Quarter, 2015 2008–present, Faculty, MFA Program in Creative Writing, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Low Residency 2005–2009, Core Faculty, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Pacific University, Low Residency 2006–present, Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Minnesota 1995–2006, Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota—Minneapolis 1992–1995, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota— Minneapolis 2 1992, Associate Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University—Tempe 1990–1992, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University—Tempe 1977–1989, Lecturer, Departments and Programs in English, Mass Communications, Humanities and Field Studies, University of California—Berkeley 1988, Writer-in-Residence, Colleges of Advanced Education, South Australia and Western Australia 1980–1981, Lecturer, Department of English, Mills College, Oakland, California 1977–1978, Lecturer, Journalism Department, San Francisco State University 1977, Lecturer, Department of Mass Communications, California State University—Hayward 1972–1974, Instructor, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Toronto 1973, Instructor, Creative Writing Program, York University, Toronto, Canada 1972–1974, Instructor, English and Journalism departments, Centennial College, Toronto Canada 1969–1970, Teaching Assistant, Speech Department, Laney College, Oakland, California 1967–1969, Teaching Assistant, Teacher, and Counselor, Upward Bound Program, University of California, Berkeley (when I was a UC Berkeley undergraduate). Writing Conference Faculty 1981–present: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury, Vermont; Key West Literary Seminars, Florida; Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, Alaska; Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington; Writers At Work, Utah; Split Rock Program (Duluth); Foothill College, California; Fishtrap, Oregon; Flight of The Mind, Oregon; Haystack, Oregon; International Women's Studies Institute, Greece; The Grange, Tasmania; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; Atlantic Center for The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida; Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, California; Aspen Writers' Conference, Aspen Colorado Other Employment 1970–present Writing (fiction and journalism, see list of publications below) 1974–1976 Editing: Listener (BBC); London Guardian; Sunday Times; Time Out; Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, London, England International Experience Britain, four years residence. Canada, four years residence. India, nine months teaching/writing. Australia, six months teaching/writing. Chile, three months teaching, writing. France, four months teaching and writing. Extensive travel in North Africa, East Africa, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia. Education and Credentials B.A., English Literature and Journalistic Studies, University of California—Berkeley M.J., Journalism (terminal degree in writing), University of California—Berkeley Additional courses in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, University of London Honors and Awards Brown Foundation Fellow, Dora Maar, travel and residency fellowship, April, 2019 Faculty College (Course Development Grant), Stanford University, 2014–2015 Residency Fellowship, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, Wyoming, May, 2015 3 Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship,May-June, 2018, April-May, 2017, April–June, 2016, April, 2015, May, 2014, May, 2011, May, 2010, March, 2008, March, 2007, April–May, 2004, May–June, 200l, January–February, 1995, April, 1990 Residency Fellowship, Fondazione Bogliasco, Liguria Study Center, April/May, 2013 Residency Fellowship, Fundación Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain, February, 2013 Residency Fellowship, Heinz Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, May, 2012 Residency Fellowship, Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, WA, 2012 Fulbright Specialist Award (Indonesia), March and April, 2009 Fellowship, Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, May, 2009 “Honored Author,” Berkeley Public Library Banquet, 9 February, 2009 McKnight Artist Fellowship ($25,000), 2005–2006 Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (Tunisia), 2004 Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction, 2005 (Abundant Light) MacDowell Residency Fellowship, July–August, 2002, May, 2003, September–October, 2004 University of Minnesota Sabbatical Supplement, January–December, 2004 Hugh J. Luke Award for Fiction, for “Percussion,” published in Prairie Schooner, Fall, 2003 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction, Best Fiction in The Southwest Review, 2002 McKnight Summer Fellow, 2002 Finalist for PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award for The Low Road, 2002 Graduate School Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Summer, 2002 Faculty Humanities Research Fellowship, 2001–2002, University of Minnesota Fulbright Scholar Award, January–June, 2000, in India. Yaddo Writing Fellowship,