Wayne Joshua Miller (born January 10, 1976) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Miller earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the University of Houston.
[1] For twelve years he taught at the University of Central Missouri, where he was an editor of the literary journal Pleiades.
[2] Since 2014 he has taught at the University of Colorado Denver, where he serves as editor/managing editor of Copper Nickel.
His first collection, Only the Senses Sleep, published by New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2006, won the 2007 William Rockhill Nelson Award in Poetry and was named a Kansas City Star "noteworthy" book of 2006.
The Book of Props, published in 2009, was described by The New Yorker as "mak[ing] a vast impact using the smallest stroke" [7] and was named a best poetry book of the year by Coldfront Magazine [8] and the Kansas City Star.
Phillip Garland, writing in Colorado Review, called Miller a "singular figure in American poetry," [14] and Donna Seaman, writing in Booklist, described Post- as "witty and solemn, stoic and nimble.
"[15] In Tupelo Quarterly, Sean Singer called Post- "a fascinating and wonderful book" and "a work of serious craft.
In 2015, Zephyr Press published Zodiac, which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation.