Curriculum VitaeEDUCATIONPh.D. in Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston, 1991. Areas of Concentration: Medieval British Literature, Rhetoric and Criticism, British Romanticism, Poetry Genre. 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 COLLECTIONSY, poems, forthcoming, Graywolf Press, 2012 The Resurrection Trade, poems, Graywolf Press, 2007 Eat Quite Everything You See, poems, Graywolf Press, 2002 Yesterday Had a Man In It, poems, 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
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 RESIDENCIESAnderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies, Artist’s ResidencyLe 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 EXPERIENCEUniversity of St. Thomas, Tenured Full Professor of English, dual appointment in the graduate and undergraduate schools, Creative Writing and Literature, 1991- present Pacific University Low-Residency M.F.A Program, Guest Faculty, 2009, 2011 Northern Michigan University M.F.A. Program, Guest Faculty, 2009 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, Invited Faculty: “Into and Out of Silence: A Multi-Genre workshop,” 2007 Nebraska Summer Writers’ Festival, Invited Faculty: Master Class in Poetry Nebraska Summer Writers’ Festival, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Invited Faculty, “Stealing the Goods: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Writing Poems” & “Revving up the Verbal Surface: Revising for Sound and Rhythm,” 2005 Fort Kearny Summer Writers’ Conference, University of Nebraska-Kearney, invited faculty, Advanced Poetry Workshop, 2000 University of Oregon, Visiting Writer Chestertown, Maryland, Instructor MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS: POETRYPrairie Schooner, "The Wonders of Web Cams," "Trigger Happy," "The Body Apologizes for Almost Everything," Winter 2010 Southern Humanities Review, "The Age of Reason," Spring 2011 Notre Dame Review, "Face Notes," "Lost Photograph of Muriel Ruckeyser," 31, January 2011 Harvard Review, " Écorchés Redux," 39, Fall 2010 New Ohio Review, "All About Skin," 8, Fall 2010 The Literary Review, "From a Balcony Over Rue de la Huchette," Child Asleep in a Bass Case," "Relinquishing the Fusional Moment," Boy at the Center, Intervening World," Winter 2010 Real: Regarding Arts and Letters, "One Awake," "Erato at 50," 34:2, Summer 2010 Ninth Letter, "Descent With Modification," "Love Note," Spring/Summer 2010 Great River Review, “Veritable Nun,” “When Menthol was Queen,” Fall/Winter 2009 Northwest Review, “Bees,” “Inchworm,” Spring 2009 River Styx, “fizzee ollegjee” 81, 2009 University of St. Thomas Alumni Magazine, “Hyperphagia,” Winter 2009 (online at http://www.stthomas.edu/magazine/2009/winter/finalthoughts.html) New Letters, “Diary of a Sentence,” Fall 2008 Southern Indiana Review, “Choir School,” “Girl Sleeping on a Trampoline,” “Snow Angels,” “The Hinckley News,” “The Book Thief,” Spring 2008 Lumberyard, “Far From the Flower,” Spring 2008 North American Review, “Pregnant in Florence,” Fall, 2006 “Torso of a Woman Gone With Child,” Spring, 2006, special issue, “The Healing Arts” ‘Mirablia,” 79:2, Summer 2005 North Dakota Quarterly, “Motherhood as Place,” “Speaking of the Devil,” “Teufelskreis,” “Shopping for the Queen of England,” Fall 2004 "Panorama Place" POEMS IN ANTHOLOGIES, TEXTBOOKS & ON-LINE SITESAmerican Tensions: The Literature of Social Justice, "Etude," "To Make a Wound," "Cherries," "Parous in Paris," New Village Press, 2011 The Ice Breaks, The Wind Blows Poems of Loss and Renewal by Minnesota Poets, "Sundays When Their Laps Were Full of Light," Nodin Press, 2010 The Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice, "Madame du Coudray's Woman Machine," Spring 2010 Minnesota Public Radio State of the Arts, "The Dead Send Their Gardener," March 15, 2010, Best American Poetry 2007, “Wandering Uterus,” and “Aim,” chosen by Heather McHugh REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLERNew Haven Review, "The missing lung and The Resurrection Trade," Alison Moncrief, December 11, 2009 (online at http://newhavenreview.com/index.php/2009/10/16/the-missing-lung-and-the-resurrection-trade/) Women’s Review of Books, “Poems Including History,” Wendy Vardaman, review of The Resurrection Trade, March 2008 (online at http://www.wcwonline.org/content/view/1667/38/) New Letters, “Anatomy Lessons,” Katie Manning, review of The Resurrection Trade, 74:2, Spring 2008 (online at http://www.newletters.org/PDFs/Manning.pdf) Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, Southeast Missouri State University, Michelle Crosnoe, review of The Resurrection Trade, 7:2, 2008 New Letters on the Air, radio interview/podcast with Angela Elam, broadcast date January 19, 2008 (http://www.newletters.org/audio/archive/lamiller.wax) American Book Review, “From the Academic to the Lyrical,” Genevieve Kaplan, review of The Resurrection Trade, 29:1, November/December 2007 The Greater Voice, radio interview/podcast with Susan F. Benjamin, broadcast September 6, 2007 (http://www.susanfbenjamin.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=13) The Midwest Book Review Library Bookwatch, review of The Resurrection Trade, June 2007 Minnesota Public Radio, radio interview/podcast with Sea Statura, April 17, 2007 (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/30/anatomypoems/) Minnesota Literature, review of The Resurrection Trade, 32:7, March 2007 Feminist Review, review of The Resurrection Trade, March 12, 2007 Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Poets in Full Bloom,” review of The Resurrection Trade, March 2007 The Harold Carolina, “Art of Anatomy Emerges in Poetic Lyricism,” review of The Resurrection Trade, March 28, 2007 Twin Cities Daily Planet, review of The Resurrection Trade, March 29, 2007 The Highland Villager, “Truth Be Told: Poet Leslie Miller Uncovers Misconceptions of Female Body,” feature article, March 21, 2007 Sigma Tau Delta Newsletter, review of The Resurrection Trade, Fall 2007 Water Stone Review, Stan Rubin, review of The Resurrection Trade, 10:3, Fall 2007 Booklist, American Library Association, review of The Resurrection Trade, January 2007 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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