Carolyn Miller grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. Today she lives in San Francisco, where she writes, paints, and works as a free-lance copy editor. Her previous books of poetry are "After Cocteau" and "Light, Moving," both from Sixteen Rivers Press. She is also the author of four letter-press limited-edition books from Protean Press. Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review, as well as in several anthologies, including Garrison Keillor's Good Poems: American Places. Her work has received the James Boatwright Award for Poetry from Shenandoah and the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry.
