The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir - Tapa dura

Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including novels, short fiction collections, and nonfiction. Miner s work has appeared inthe "Georgia Review", "TriQuarterly", "Salmagundi", "New Letters", "Ploughshares", the "Village Voice", "Prairie Schooner", the "Gettysburg Review", the "Times Literary Supplement", the "Women s Review of Books", the "Nation", and other journals. Her stories and essays have been published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. 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, the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, Fundacion Valparaiso, the Australia Council Literary Arts Board, and numerous other organizations. She has received Fulbright fellowships to Tunisia, India, and Indonesia. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. Her website iswww.valerieminer.com.