Amy Miller

Poet

Ashland, OR

Website:

writers-island.blogspot.com/

Author's Bio

Amy Miller is the author of nine poetry and nonfiction chapbooks, including Botanica (2012), 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. She was a co-founder of the Piccolo Poetry Series, the largest poetry open mike on the San Francisco Peninsula, and currently works as the publications project manager for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

The Knotted Bond: Oregon Poets Speak of Their Sisters (Uttered Chaos Press, 2016)

Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Hippocrates Prize / Top Edge Press, 2014)

Turn (Uttered Chaos Press, 2013)

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

Northwest Review

San Pedro River Review

Spillway

Tattoo Highway

West Wind Review

Whiskey Island

Willow Springs

ZYZZYVA

Prizes won:

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, Idaho Prize from Lost Horse Press (longlisted), 49th Parallel Award (finalist), Pablo Neruda Prize (finalist)

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, Among Others by Cecelia Hagen

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Sunnyvale

Raised in:

Westfield, MA

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Last update: Apr 20, 2014