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Amy Miller

Author's Bio

Amy Miller is a book-production editor living in Ashland, Oregon. The author of eight poetry and nonfiction chapbooks, including Tea Before Questions (2010) and Beautiful/Brutal (2009), she has taught workshops on writing and publishing for the Jack London Writers’ Conference, Oregon State Poetry Association, California Writers’ Club, and San Francisco State University. With a 30-year career in the publishing industry, she specializes in teaching classes on chapbook layout and production. She is a co-founder of the Piccolo Poetry Series, the largest poetry open mike on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Publications and Prizes

Journals:
Alehouse, Crab Orchard Review, Many Mountains Moving, Mudfish, Northwest Review, Permafrost, Rattapallax, Rattle, Zyzzyva
Prizes:
Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition, Cloudbank Prize, Kay Snow Award, Whiskey Island Poetry Prize, Alehouse Happy Hour Prize (finalist), Poets' Dinner Grand Prize

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, Among Others by Cecelia Hagen
Favorite Books:
Brave New World, All Flesh Is Grass, Anna Karenina, The Corrections, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Favorite Authors:
Andrew Sean Greer, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, Molly Gloss, Clifford D. Simak

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it.
Listing last updated: November 5, 2010

More Information

Listed as:
Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Prefers to work with:
Any
Fluent in:
English
Born in:
Sunnyvale, CA
Raised in:
Westfield, MA

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