Writer’s Island

• Poetry • Essays • Art •
• Cyclone Press •

Pages

▼

Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts

Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Museum of Lost Work Skills

The other day at work, I found myself pulling Post-it flags off of a big stack of papers and sticking them neatly back on the di...

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Personal Belongings That I Brought Home from Work After I Quit My Job Two Weeks Ago

Sis-Q Rollerz roller derby button Oakland A’s button Ugly avocado-green tape dispenser that I bought in 1981 so people would st...

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Take This Job and Gently Put It Somewhere

Oh, how I wanted to be Jerry Maguire. How I wanted to put a goldfish in a bag, tell the boss to shove it, right in front of the...

View web version

About Me

Amy Miller: Southern Oregon; My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, Nimrod, Rattle, RHINO, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Springs, ZYZZYVA, Fine Gardening, Asimov's Science Fiction, and many editions of the Poet's Market. My chapbook Astronauts won the 2022 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal and was a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award, and my full-length poetry collection The Trouble with New England Girls won the 2017 Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Press. Recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship in Poetry in 2021, I have won the Coniston Prize from Radar, judged by Dorianne Laux; the Red Wheelbarrow Prize, judged by Ellen Bass; the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition, judged by Tony Hoagland; and the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize from Cultural Weekly. I am editor-in-chief of the small boutique publisher Cyclone Press.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.