Brenda Miller, PhD
she/her, Professor
Office
Location
HU 303
Hours
Tues/Thurs 12-1pm and by appointment. In person or via Zoom. Sign up for appointments on Calendly.
Website
Personal WebsiteAbout
Brenda Miller’s most recent book is A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir, and she is the recipient of six Pushcart Prizes. Her book of collaborative essays with Julie Marie Wade, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her poetry chapbook, The Daughters of Elderly Women, received the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill.
Research Interests
- Creative Nonfiction
- Lyric Essay Forms
- Hybrid Forms
- Autobiography and Photography
- Writing About Animals