Denise Miller is a professor, poet and mixed media artist whose publications include poems in Dunes Review, African American Review and Blackberry: A Magazine. She was named the 2015 Willow Books Emerging Poet, an AROHO Waves Discussion Fellowship awardee, a finalist for the Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund, and a Hedgebrook Fellow. Her full-length manuscript, Core, was released by Willow Books in November 2015 and has since been nominated for a 2016 American Book Award and a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Additionally, one of her poems from a collection in progress has also been nominated for the 2016 Pushcart Prize. Miller has also been recently named a 2016 William Randolph Hearst Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her chapbook, Ligatures for Black Bodies will be published November 2016 from Rattle Press. More of her work can be found at www.makedo.weebly.com
