Brenda Miller

Essayist, Editor

Brenda Miller is Professor Emerita at Western Washington University, where she taught creative writing for 25 years. Her 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 seven Pushcart Prizes. She also received the Floating Bridge Press Poetry Chapbook award for her poetry collection, The Daughters of Elderly Women, and co-wrote the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction. Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com