Miriam Herin

Miriam Herin's second novel A STONE FOR BREAD, published by Livingston Press of West Alabama University, received a starred KIRKUS review through the KIRKUS Indie program and was named a KIRKUS Best Books of the Year for 2016. In May of 2020, the novel won the Eric Hoffer Legacy Award and was a short-list finalist for the Hoffer Grand Prize. Prior to publication, the novel was a top-ten finalist in the 2014 International Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition novel category.

Miriam's first novel ABSOLUTION won the 2008 Novello Literary Award from North Carolina’s Novello Press and was cited by PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY as an “impressive” debut that “skillfully combines a contemporary courtroom thriller with a subtle look back at the competing passions and pressures of the Vietnam War era... Herin delves deep into questions of guilt and forgiveness while demonstrating a gift for the nuances of personal interactions.” ABSOLUTION received INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER's Gold Award for Best Fiction, Southeast Region, and was a Finalist for FOREWORD MAGAZINE’s 2007 Novel of the Year. The novel was a Legacy Finalist in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Awards.

Her short story "Lucky" won North Carolina's 2018 Doris Betts Fiction Prize.