Amy Miller

Poet

Ashland, OR
Oregon US
Website: 
writers-island.blogspot.com/
Twitter/X: 
@AmyMillerPoet

Author's Bio

Amy Miller’s Astronauts won the 2022 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal, and her full-length collection The Trouble with New England Girls won the 2017 Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Narrative, RHINO, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, ZYZZYVA, and numerous anthologies, and she received a 2021 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and Western Massachusetts, she lives in Ashland, Oregon, where she works for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and serves as poetry editor for the regional NPR listeners’ guide Jefferson Journal. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Knotted Bond: Oregon Poets Speak of Their Sisters (Uttered Chaos Press, 2016)
,
Turn (Uttered Chaos Press, 2013)
Books:
Astronauts (Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation, 2022)
,
The Trouble with New England Girls (Concrete Wolf, 2018)
Journals:
Alehouse
,
Apalachee Review
,
Bellingham Review
,
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
,
Cider Press Review
,
Cloudbank
,
Crab Orchard Review
,
Elohi Gadugi Journal
,
Faultline
,
Fourteen Hills
,
Hubbub
,
Many Mountains Moving
,
Mudfish
,
Nimrod
,
Northwest Review
,
Permafrost
,
Rattapallax
,
Rattle
,
San Pedro River Review
,
Spillway
,
Tattoo Highway
,
West Wind Review
,
Whiskey Island
,
Willow Springs
,
ZYZZYVA
Prizes won: 

Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize, Coniston Prize, Louis Award, Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition, Cloudbank Prize, Kay Snow Award, Whiskey Island Poetry Prize, Poets’ Dinner Grand Prize; finalist for 49th Parallel Award, Pablo Neruda Prize, Atlanta Review prize, others.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary, Instrument by Dao Strom, Fjords Vol. II by Zachary Schomburg

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Sunnyvale, CA
California
Raised in: 
Westfield, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Dec 19, 2022