Valerie Miner - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

  • McKnight/Loft Artist Fellowship, 2005–2006
  • Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (Indonesia) 2009
  • Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (Tunisia), 2004
  • Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (January–June, 2000) in India.
  • Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in Fiction, 2005
  • Hugh J. Luke Award for Fiction, for “Percussion,” published in Prairie Schooner, Fall, 2003
  • McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction, “Veranda,” Best Fiction in The Southwest Review, 2002
  • McKnight Summer Fellow, 2002
  • Finalist for PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award for The Low Road, 2002
  • University College Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1999
  • McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, Summer, 1998
  • Visiting Research Associate, University of Edinburgh, International Social Sciences Institute, April and May, 1997
  • "Master Artist," Atlantic Center for the Arts, March, 1997
  • Jerome Foundation Travel Fellowship, 1995–1997
  • Bush Foundation Sabbatical Supplement Award, 1996–1997
  • N.E.A Mobile Residency (to give readings and lectures in South East Alaska), Spring, 1996
  • McKnight Research Fellowship, 1994–1997
  • Common Rhythms Fellow, Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation, Centrum Foundation, 1993–1994
  • McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1993
  • Australia Council Literary Arts Grant, 1988
  • PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, 1986

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