Biography
Originally from Ohio, Wayne Miller lived in New York, Texas, and Missouri before he arrived in Colorado in 2014. He is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The End of Childhood (Milkweed, 2025). His awards include fellowships form the Poetry Foundation and the NEA, as well as the UNT Rilke Prize, two Colorado Book Awards in Poetry, two Pushcart Prizes, six individual awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine, and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Northern Ireland. He has co-translated two books by the Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo—most recently Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015)—and he has co-edited three books, most recently Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed, 2016). He lives in Denver with his family and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, where he co-directs the Unsung Masters Series and edits Copper Nickel.
