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denise miller
writer. artist. professor.

Denise Miller (they/she) is a poet, playwright and mixed media artist whose poetry has widley published.

Book Publications: 
How to Make an American Mass Shooter released in October 2024 from Querencia Press.

They won the 2020 Sexton Prize for Poetry for their full-length poetry collection, A Ligature for Black Bodies which was later nominated for a National Book Award. 

Core, released by Willow Books in 2015 and nominated for a 2016 American Book Award and a 2016 Pushcart Prize

Their chapbook, Ligatures was published in 2016 by Rattle Press.

Their produced plays include Ligatures (adapted for the stage) and Before the Shooting.

Awarded Fellowships and Residencies
  • 2023 Willapa Bay Artist in Residence
  • 2023 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Fellow​
  • 2023 Helene and Dorothy West Renaissance House Residency Program
  • 2023 Prairie Ronde Artist in Residence
  • 2023 Bethany Arts Fellowship​
  • 2021 Storyknife Writers Retreat Resident
  • 2021 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship
  • 2021 Hart Residency
  • 2020 Sexton Prize for Poetry Winner
  • The 2016 William Randolph Hearst Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society 
  • 2014 Hedgebrook Fellow

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