Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston. Areas of Concentration: Medieval British Literature, Rhetoric and Criticism, British Romanticism, Poetry Genre, 1991. Studied with poets Cynthia MacDonald, Edward Hirsch, Adam Zagajewski and Richard Howard.
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 1982. Studied with poets Donald Justice, Marvin Bell, Jane Cooper and Henri Coulette.
M.A. in English, University of Missouri, 1980. Studied with poet Larry Levis.
B.A. in English, Stephens College, Missouri Life Teaching Certificate (K-12), 1978. Studied with poets Jonathan Holden and Heather McHugh.
POETRY COLLECTIONS
The Resurrection Trade, Graywolf Press, 2007
Eat Quite Everything You See, Graywolf Press, 2002
Yesterday Had a Man In It, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998.
Ungodliness, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994.
Staying Up for Love, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990.
No River, a chapbook of poems selected by William Stafford for the 1987
Stanley Hanks Chapbook Award, St. Louis Poetry Center.
Hanging on the Sunburned Arm of Some Homeboy, a chapbook of poems co-written
with Matthew Graham, from Domino Impressions Press, Iowa City, 1982.
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
The Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner Magazine
Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, judged by Alice Fulton
Loft Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Grant
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Assistance Fellowships
Nebraska Review Poetry Award judged by Pamela Stewart
Arts International Travel Grant, Indonesia, United States International Education Program
Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry
The Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner Magazine
National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
Billee Murray Denny Poetry Award
Stanley Young Fellowship in Poetry, Breadloaf Writers’ Conference
Pen Southwest Discovery Award, judged by Phil Levine
Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from Southern California Anthology judged by William Matthews
Pushcart Prize
Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship, sponsored by Quarterly West, judged by Marvin Bell
Stanley Hanks Poetry Chapbook Award, St. Louis Poetry Center, selected by William Stafford
Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship, judged by Stephen Dunn
Stephens College Excellence in Teaching Award, selected by the faculty of Stephens College
President's Award from Ohio Journal, judged by David Citino
ARTIST’S RESIDENCIES
Anderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies, Artist’s Residency
Le Château de Lavigny, Maison d'écrivains, Foundation Ledig-Rowoholt,
Lavigny, Switzerland, Artist’s Residency
Fundación Valparaíso, Almería, Spain, Artist's Residency
Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat Fellowship, Scotland, Artist’s Residency
N.A.L.L. Artists Colony, Vence, France, Artist’s Residency
Goethe-Institut Cultural Exchange Fellowship in Berlin, Germany in cooperation with Chicago's Guild Complex, TriQuarterly Magazine, the Berlin Senate and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of St. Thomas, Tenured Full Professor of English, dual appointment in the graduate and undergraduate schools, Creative Writing and Literature, 1991- present. University of Oregon, Visiting Writer
Houston Writers in the Schools Program, Instructor.
Stephens College, Director, Creative Writing Program.
Stephens College/ Perry-Mansfield Summer School. Director, program in Creative Writing.
Gifted and Talented Center for Creative Writing in the Humanities,Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, Instructor.
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Instructor
Goucher College, Instructor.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Instructor.
Catonsville Community College, Instructor.
University of Houston, University of Iowa, University of Missouri Graduate Instructor
MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS: POETRY
North American Review, “Pregnant in Florence,” Fall, 2006.
Nimrod International Journal of Poetry and Prose, “Parous in Paris,” “Map of the Interior,” “Torso of
a Woman Gone With Child,” Spring, 2006, special issue, “The Healing Arts”
Ploughshares, “Étude,” Winter, 2006
Great River Review, “Mother and Son,” “Mimosa,” Spring 2006
Kenyon Review, “Aim,” “Wandering Uterus,” Winter 2006 (also featured on Poetry Daily
Website, January 2006)
Prairie Schooner, “Madame du Coudray’s Woman Machine,” “Gautier D’Agoty’s Écorchés,”
‘Mirablia,” 79:2, Summer 2005
Antioch Review, “Sonnet on the Interval During Which the Sun is Below the Horizon,” Summer 2005. North Dakota Quarterly, “Motherhood as Place,” “Speaking of the Devil,” “Teufelskreis,” “Shopping
for the Queen of England,” Fall 2004
City Pages, “The Harriers,” June 16, 2004
Willow Springs, “The Turtle of Love,” “Weaning,” 53:2, Winter/Spring 2004
Harbinger, “Bridge Club,” Spring 2004
Luna, "Homage to a Testore Bass," "The Plane Tree," Summer 2003
Great River Review, "Bridge Club," "Up North," "Bridal Wear," Summer 2003
Big Muddy: Mississippi Journal, "Easter Flood," Fall 2002
Willow Springs, "To the Postmodernist or He Doesn't Like Truth,” Summer 2002
Colorado Review, "Self-Portrait With Suitcases," Summer 2002
Seneca Review, "The Actual Heart," Spring, 2002
Rattle Magazine, Number 16, December 2001, "Confessional"
North Stone Review, Number 14, "Subtitles," "Plastic Cultura," "The Dead Send Their Gardener"
Crab Orchard Review, Fall/Winter 2001, 7:1, "Trading Love Stories in Installments, Ruined
Amphitheater, Provence."
Crazyhorse, Spring 2001, 60, "Clarté: Stäel at Antibes," "Police Work," "He Thinks I'm Making a
Monster," "Panorama Place"
Gulf Coast, 20th Anniversary issue, Spring 2000, "One Moon View of Puget Sound"
Harvard Review, Fall 2000, "Prévert's Peaches"
North American Review, "Veritable Laguiole," November, 2000.
Sycamore Review, 12:1, January 2000, "The Lyric Impulse"
Poems & Plays, 7, Spring/Summer 2000, "Outliving the Lyric Moment"
Spoon River Poetry Review, 24:1, Winter/Spring 1999, "Imagining Myself With Child at Forty," "Three
Begonias"
Water/Stone, Fall 1999, "Nature Morte"
Southern Indiana Review, Spring 1999, "No Man's Land," "Hydrologic Sonnet"
Great River Review, Fall 1999,"Cautionary Tale," "Eclogue Walking"
Mississippi Review, Winter 1998, “After an Evening With Mickey Rourke, I Pick Up Petrarch”
Critical Quarterly, 40:3, Fall 1998, “La Création”
Crab Orchard Review, Spring 1998, “Photograph of People Dancing in France,” “Sunday When Their
Laps Were Full of Light”
Ekphrasis, 1:4, Fall 1998, “Portrait Trouvé”
American Poetry Review, 27:2, March/April 1998, “Trying to Reach my Young Lover Before
His Feet Get Too Cold”
Crazyhorse, Fall 1997: "Getting the Naughty Bits of Bahasa Indonesia, "Intimate Apparel"
Oxford Magazine, Fall 1997: "Your Window on the Wannsee is Closed"
River Styx, 51, 1997: “Warts”; 52, 1998: “On Being Asked What Compels Me to Keep Making Art”
Ploughshares, 22:4, Winter 1996-1997: "A Connect the Dots Picture"
Great River Review, 26, 1997: "Kebyar Trompong," "Glimpse of Germania Near Teufelsberg"
International Quarterly, 2:4, Fall 1996: "Asia," and "The Small Streets of Ubud"
Antioch Review, 54:4, Fall 1996: "Autumnal"
Kalliope, 18:2, 1996: "When Grace Goes to Hug Me"
Nebraska Review, Summer 1996: "Appasionato," "Dark Year With Flowers"
International Quarterly, Fall 1995: "Die Aufklärung," "Berlin Hinterhöfe"
Crab Orchard Review, 1, Fall 1995: "Lawn Ornaments," "Yesterday Had a Man in It"
Prairie Schooner, Spring 1995: "Babes in Toyland," "Rite of Winter"
North Dakota Quarterly, 62:1, Winter 1994-1995: "Mermaid in the U-Bahn"
North Stone Review, 12, 1995: "Deutscher Kaffee," Valediction for an Itinerant Lover,"
"The History of Rhetoric"
River Styx, 44, April 1995: "The Keening"
Nimrod, 31:1, Fall 1993: "Pandare," "Sleeping Out," "Gacela of Departed Love"
Kenyon Review, 14:3, 1992: "Temporary Services"
The American Voice, 27, 1992: "Swimming With Horses"
Spot: Houston Photography Center, Fall 1991: "The Queen of Fortune"
New England Review, 13: 3/4, 1991: "The Romantics," "Bliss"
Ploughshares: 20th Anniversary Issue, 17:2/3,1991: "Holy Water"
Three Rivers Poetry Journal, 37/38, 1991: "The Driving Range," "The Substitute,"
Tampa Review, 4, 1991: "A Shooting," "Family Portrait, Florida"
Indiana Review, Spring 1991: "The Police Tent at the County Fair,""What My Father Doesn't Know"
Prairie Schooner, Winter 1990: "On Looking at Photographs of my Grandmother's Old
Boyfriends," "Walking Around My House in the Dark," "Tempting the Universe"
Kenyon Review, 12:4, 1990: "Ungodliness"
Southern Poetry Review, 30:1 Spring, 1990: "Maybe You Were Going to Slink Off into the Sunset"
New Letters, 55:2, 1989: "Early Dark"
Gulf Coast, Summer 1989: "Fire"
Carnegie Mellon Magazine, 8:1, 1989: "Celibacy"
The Pennsylvania Review, 4:3 Spring 1989: "Salutation," "Indigence," "Crimes of Passion"
Helicon Nine, 20, 1989: "Sick"
Yellow Silk, 1989: "Sleepers"
Southern Poetry Review, 29:2 Fall 1989: "Sleeping On the Edge of the Bed"
Texas Star, I:28: "The Weather of Invention;” "My Students Catch Me Dancing"
The Missouri Review, Winter 1988-89: "What I Know About Music"
American Poetry Review, 17:6 Nov/Dec 1988: "The Monkey,"
"After Dinner Story for Three Single Women"
Southern California Anthology, V: Summer 1988: "Influenza"
Quarterly West, 28: Summer 1988: "Definition," "The Weather of Invention,"
"My Students Catch Me Dancing"
Gulf Coast, Summer 1988: "Upon Finding My Nightgown in the Living-room," "Blue Boy"
The Nebraska Review, XV:2 Summer 1987: "Lines on Your 37th Birthday"
Open Places, 42, 1987: "Tracks Were on the Frosty Lawn," "Epithalamium," "Primary Colors"
Quarterly West, 26: Winter 1987: "Flower Walk," "William's Undershirts in the Wind,"
"When I Come Back as a Younger Woman"
Yellow Silk, 19, Summer 1986: "Backyard Lyric"
The Antioch Review, 44:4 Fall 1986: "Owning a Bar," "All the Rooms of the House,"
"The Future of Beauty," "Lost Flamingo"
Primavera, 10: fall 1986: "Afternoon at Pettaquamscutt Rock"
Negative Capability, Spring 1986: "An Early Meeting With Men"
Southern Poetry Review, 26:1 Fall 1986: "Saturday Night, Almost Thirty"
Helicon Nine, 12/13, Fall 1985: "Deer Harvest"
Ohio Journal, 8:3 Winter 1984: "A Truckload of Daughters,"
"What Anger There is in My Father"
Poet Lore, 78:4 Winter 1984: "The Wild Ponies of Assateague Island,"
"Everyone Has a Single Quiet Story"
Southern Poetry Review, 24:2 Fall 1984: "The Man in the Courtyard"
Kansas Quarterly, 15:4 Fall 1983: "Red on the Outside," "The Ventriloquist"
Nit & Wit, 5:5 Fall 1983: "The Telling"
Telephone, 17 Summer 1983: "Pen Drawing for Harper's Young People"
Prairie Schooner, 57:1 Spring 1983: "Rhodope," "Calling on the Gypsy"
Primavera, 8: Summer 1983: "The Telephone Dream"
Open Places, 33, 1982: "Spring Fever," "The Bass Player's Wife," "After the Commemoration"
Northwest Review, 20:1 Spring 1982: "American Summer"
The Georgia Review, 36:2 Summer 1982: "Jealousy"
13th Moon, 6: 1 & 2 1982: "That Boy"
Kansas Quarterly, 14:3 Summer 1982: "Bookkeeping: Zanesville, Ohio"
Poet & Critic, Fall 1981: "Sestina: The Dying Swan"
The Poetry Miscellany, 10 Spring 1980: "Chas Harvey"
Chelsea, 38 Fall 1979: "The Coyote Hunt"
Open Places, 28, 1979: "Intersections," "Thief," "The Boyfriend"
North American Review, 26:1 Spring 1978: "Negative"
Beloit Poetry Journal, 27:3 Spring 1977: "Cinderella"
POEMS IN ANTHOLOGIES, TEXTBOOKS & ON-LINE SITES
Best American Poetry 2007, “Wandering Uterus,” and “Aim,” chosen by Heather McHugh
Where One Voice Ends and Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, Minnesota Historical
Society Press, 2007, “The Harriers,” “Mirabilia,” “Madame du Coudray’s Woman Machine”
To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present, New
Rivers Press, 2006, “Bridal Wear,” “Up North”
Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework, University of Iowa, 2006, “Convovulus
Tricolor”
Poetry Daily Featured Poet, “Wandering Uterus,” January, 2006
Are You Experienced? Baby Boom Poets at Midlife, "When Hope Goes to Hug Me," University of Iowa
Press, 2003
Red Dragonfly Press Anthology, Anderson Center, "An Aversion," Summer 2002.
Climate Controlled, "Cautionary Tale;" "Hydrologic Sonnet," fall 2002
The Antioch Review, 60 Year Anniversary Issue, 2001, "Autumnal"
McKnight Awards Anthology, Graywolf Press 1998, “The Many Faucets of Love,”
“Mermaid in the U-Bahn Station,” Intimate Apparel,” “Portrait Trouvé,”
“Whale Watching,” “Getting the Naughty Bits of Bahasa Indonesia,”
“Yesterday Had a Man in It,” “Macet,” “Babes in Toyland”
Loft E-Verse Online, “Dark Year With Flowers,” fall 1999
Northwoods, online poetry page sponsored by the Loft and Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Babes
in Toyland," "The Many Faucents of Love," January 1999
Poetry Daily Online, Featured poet, March 1, 1998, “Asia”
Boomer Girls: American Women Poets Come of Age, 1999, “Lawn Ornaments,” “Warts,”
“Sleeping Out”
Literature (5th edition), "Dear Harvest," Prentice Hall, 1997
Star Tribune Online, “At the Podium,” Online audio recording, four poems.
Minnesota Monthly, May/June 1995: "The Romantics," "The Driving Range"
Motives for Writing, Mayfield Publishing 1995: "The Driving Range"
Writing Poems, Little Brown & Co, 1995, "My Students Catch Me Dancing"
Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry, 1993: "My Students Catch Me Dancing," "The
Weather of Invention," "The Substitute"
Loft McKnight Awards Anthology, 1993: "The Monkey," "The Romantics," "The
Queen of Fortune," "Swimming With Horses"
Yellow Silk: An Erotic Anthology, Crown/Harmony, 1990: "Backyard Lyric"
Helicon Nine Reader, 1991: "Deer Harvest"
New York Times Book Review, September 23, 1990: "My Mother's Doll"
Pushcart XIII, 1988: "Epithalamium"
Missouri Anthology of Women Writers, 1987: "Red Cows," "That Boy," "American Summer"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1986-1988: "The Future of Beauty"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1984: "Jealousy"
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER
Write-On Radio, interview with Tracy Leask, February 9, 2006.
Contemporary Authors, biography of Leslie Adrienne Miller, January 1, 2004.
Antioch Review, review of Eat Quite Everything You See, Spring 2003.
Ohioana Quarterly, review of Eat Quite Everything You See, Winter 2002.
Publishers Weekly, review of Eat Quite Everything You See, June 17, 2002.
Minnesota Literature, review of Eat Quite Everything You See, September 2002.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Got Roots? Five Poets Expose Their Regional Affinities in New
Collections,"review of Eat Quite Everything You See," July 14, 2002.
University of St. Thomas Magazine, review of Eat Quite Everything You See, Summer 2002.
The North Stone Review, review of Eat Quite Everything You See, Number 14, 2002.
Kearney Hub, "Poet's Many Travels Become Source of Inspiration for Books," feature article by Jan
Thompson, March 21, 2002.
Ohioana Quarterly, review of Yesterday Had a Man In It, XLII:1, Spring 1999.
Highland Villager, feature article, “Artist Fellowship honors UST Prof Leslie Adrienne Miller,” 46:14,
September 23-October 6, 1998, pp. 25-28.
A View From the Loft, interview with Leslie Adrienne Miller by Heid Erdrich, September 1998.
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, review of Yesterday Had a Man In It, by Andrea Hollander Budy,
April 26, 1998.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, review of Yesterday Had a Man In It, February 1998.
Iowa City Press Citizen, review of Yesterday Had a Man In It, February 1998.
The Daily Iowan, interview with Leslie Adrienne Miller, February 1998.
Write-On Radio, Minneapolis, interview with Leslie Adrienne Miller by J.Otis Powell, February 1998.
Minnesota Literature, review of Yesterday Had a Man In It, February 1998.
Minnesota Monthly, review of Ungodliness, December 1995.
Ohioana Quarterly, review of Ungodliness, XXXVIII:3, Fall 1995.
Washington Post Book World, review of Ungodliness, November 13, 1994, 24:12, 51-250.
Choice Magazine: American Library Association, review of Ungodliness, September
1994, 32:1.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, review of Ungodliness, June 19, 1994.
University of St. Thomas Magazine, "Poetry and the Imaginative Life," Autumn 1993, IX:4.
Ohioana Quarterly, review of Staying Up for Love, XXXIII:3, Fall 1990.
Siren Magazine, Houston, feature article, November 1990.
The Virginia Quarterly Review, review of Staying Up For Love, 66:3, Summer 1990.
American Book Review, "Both an Appeal and a Warning," review of Staying Up For Love, 13:2,
June/July 1990.
Washington Post Book World, review of Staying Up For Love, May 6, 1990.
Houston Metropolitan Magazine, review of Staying Up For Love, January 1990.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, review of No River, August 2, 1987.
Kansas City Star, "Voices of Missouri Women," April 26, 1987.
The Columbia Daily Tribune, feature article, "The Epilogue of Open Places," March 4, 1987.
The Columbia Missourian, "Poet Uses Childhood to Find Life's Lessons," feature
article, January 25, 1984.
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