At once urgent and urbane, intimate and grand, gravid and luscious, her poems offer delight and sustenance as they illuminate the largest questions. —Alice Fulton

The fierce, passionate observation and the rich pageantry of Miller’s poems have astonished me for twenty years now. Deeply original and constantly compelling, she is a poet as capable of deft portraiture as she is of wise philosophical and cultural reckonings. —David St. John

Leslie Adrienne Miller‘s collections of poetry include Y, The Resurrection Trade and Eat Quite Everything You See from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up For Love from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor Emerita of English at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an M.A. from the University of Missouri, and a B.A. from Stephens College.

She has received the Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, two Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN Southwest Discovery Award, two Writers-at-Work Fellowships, and a number of prizes from literary magazines, the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner and the Nebraska Review Poetry Award.  She has also held residencies and fellowships with Le Château de Lavigny, Morges, Switzerland; Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Spain; Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin, Germany; Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat, Lasswade, Scotland; Ventspils House International Writers and Translators’ House, Ventspils, Latvia; the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota; Willapa Bay Artist Residency, Oysterville, Washington; and Arts International, Jakarta, Indonesia. 

Miller’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Professor Emerita of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, she holds degrees from Stephens College, the University of Missouri, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the University of Houston.