Matt W. Miller

Matt W. Miller is the author of the collections The Wounded for the Water, Club Icarus, selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and Cameo Diner: Poems. His newest collection, Tender the River, will be published by Texas Review Press in 2021. He has published poems and essays in Birmingham Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Narrative Magazine, Southwest Review, American Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, Memorious, and Crazyhorse. He is the winner of Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Prize, The Poetry by the Sea Conference’s Sonnet Crown Contest, River Styx’s Microbrew/Microfiction Prize, and Iron Horse Review‘s Trifecta Poetry Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy and lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.