Teresa K. Miller

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Teresa K. Miller is an American poet.

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, [1] Miller graduated from Barnard College and the Mills College MFA program. [2] She is the author of the poetry book sped (Sidebrow, 2013) [3] and the poetry chapbook Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky, 2008). [4] With Tanya Kerssen, she co-edited the anthology Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building (Food First Books, 2015) for the Institute for Food and Development Policy. [5] She has published poems and essays in ZYZZYVA , [6] AlterNet , [7] Entropy, [8] DIAGRAM, [9] Common Dreams , [10] Empty Mirror, [11] and elsewhere.

Miller is a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series. [12] Former California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes selected her manuscript Borderline Fortune for publication by Penguin in 2021. [12] She has previously placed as a finalist with two other manuscripts. [13] [14]

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