Bio

Carolyn Miller grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, where she was baptized in the 
Roubidoux River at the age of eight. Today, she lives in a Romeo and Juliet flat on the 
Hyde Street cable-car line in San Francisco, where she writes, paints, and works as a 
freelance writer/editor. Her books of poetry are After Cocteau and Light, Moving, both 
from Sixteen Rivers Press, and four limited-edition letter-press chapbooks from Protean 
Press. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and 
American Life in Poetry, and have appeared in Smartish Pace, The Gettysburg Review, 
The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Georgia Review, among other journals, 
as well as in several anthologies, including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems: American 
Places. Her essays have appeared in The Missouri Review and The Sun, and her honors 
include the James Boatwright Award for Poetry from Shenandoah and the Rainmaker 
Award from Zone 3. For more information, see carolynmillerwords.com.