On May 11, 2020, Miriam’s second novel A Stone for Bread won the 2020 Eric Hoffer competition Legacy Award, which placed the novel on the short list for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize. Prior to publication, the Stone for Bread manuscript was a top-ten finalist in the 2014 International Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Novel Competition. In 2016, it was nominated for North Carolina’s prestigious Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. Published by Livingston Press of the University of West Alabama, the novel received a starred Kirkus review through the Kirkus Indy program and was cited by Kirkus as an Indy Best book of the year for 2016. It was a 2017 Finalist in the International Book Awards, Literary Fiction category.

On May 11, 2020, Miriam’s second novel A Stone for Breadwon the 2020 Eric Hoffer competition Legacy Award, which placed the novel on the short list for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize.
Prior to publication, the Stone for Bread manuscript was a top-ten finalist in the 2014 International Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Novel Competition.
In 2016, it was nominated for North Carolina’s prestigious Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction.
Published by Livingston Press of the University of West Alabama, the novel received a starred Kirkus review through the Kirkus Indy programand was cited by Kirkus as an Indy Best book of the year for 2016.
It was a 2017 Finalist in the International Book Awards, Literary Fiction category.