Wayne Miller

Wayne Miller is the author of five poetry collections: We the Jury (Milkweed, 2021); Post- (2016), which won the Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award; The City, Our City (2011), which was shortlisted for the William Carlos Williams Award and the Rilke Prize; The Book of Props (2009), which was named a best book of the year by Coldfront Magazine and the Kansas City Star; and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), which won the William Rockhill Nelson Award. He has co-translated two books by the Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo—Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015), which was shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation, and I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007)—and he has co-edited three books: Literary Publishing in the 21st Century (Milkweed, 2016), Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (Unsung Masters, 2011), and New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). In 2013 Miller was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University in Northern Ireland. The recipient of awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Poetry Foundation, and Poetry Magazine, he teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, co-directs the Unsung Masters Series, and edits Copper Nickel.