Recent Criticism

“Discovering the Narrative Persona,” in Imagining Ourselves: The Narrative Stance in Memoir, by Judith Barrington, Dustin Beall Smith, Nancy Lord, Allison Hedge Coke, Valerie Miner, and Sherry Simpson, Gettysburg, PA, Welcome Table Press, 2011
“Valerie Miner: A Person of Letters.” Essay and long interview about my writing by H. Lee Barnes, Orchid, Spring, 2003.
“Indian Writing Crosses The Atlantic,” in Span, New Delhi, February, 2002
“The Writer’s World,” translated by Anna Nadotti in Legendaria, September, October, 2000
“A Novella, A Window Seat and a Cornish Pasty,” Judge’s Essay, Quarterly West, Fall, 1999.
“To Look Again: An Essay on Revision,” AWP Chronicle, February, 1998.
“Writing My Way West,” reprinted in Faultline, Summer, 1997.
“Writing My Way West,” AWP Chronicle, October, 1996.
“Reticence and Resistance, A Conversation,” (with Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Judith Barrington) Women’s Review of Books, July, 1996.
“Reviewing Literary Citizenship,” AWP Chronicle, September, 1995.
“The Politics of Reviewing.” Work and Days, 21, vol. 11. no. 1, 1993.
“Finding Cordelia’s Voice as Working Class Hero.” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall-Winter 1992.
“Memory and Vision: Roads to and From Eressos.” Australian Feminist Studies, 1991.—. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 1991.
“Labor Pains.” Village Voice, 5 January 1988.