Stephen D. Miller

STEPHEN D. MILLER is associate professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Miller is author of The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013). He is translator of A Pilgrim’s Guide to Forty-Six Temples (Weatherhill Inc., 1990), and editor of Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature (Gay Sunshine Press, 1996). Miller is also a contributing editor of Tran(s)tudies (www.transtudies.org). He lived in Japan for nine years between 1980 and 1999, in part as the recipient of two Japan Foundation fellowships for research abroad.

Stephen D. Miller and Patrick Donnelly are co-translators of the 141 Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak. Their translations have appeared in Bateau, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Circumference, The Cortland Review, The Drunken Boat, eXchanges, Inquiring Mind, Kyoto Journal, Mead, Metamorphoses, New Plains Review, NOON: The Journal of the Short Poem, Poetry International, Zone 3, and Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013).