Gender Forum Speaker Series: Valerie Miner

Sabancı University

Gender and Women's Studies Forum Speaker Series:

Gender and Genre; Sexuality and Language: An Author's Perspective

by

Valerie Miner

(Stanford University)

Monday, March 19th, 2012

16:00-18:00

Karaköy Minerva Palas

Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books. Her new novel, Traveling with Spirits, will be published by Livingston Press 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 isRumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage.

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, India and Indonesia.

Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now an artist-in-residence and professor at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures and workshops. She and her partner live in San Francisco and Mendocino County, California