Matt W. Miller
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Matt was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He played football at Yale University until a neck injury senior year put him back in the library reading all the books he forgot to read and doing a little writing. He worked as a fry cook, a bouncer, a landscaper, a security guard, and installed blinds and shades in every college dorm room in Boston before earning his MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Emerson College. He has taught at Stanford University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, New England College, and the New Hampshire State Prison for Men.
Miller is author of The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work in Birmingham Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Narrative, Crazyhorse, 32 Poems, Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, and other journals. He is winner of River Styx's Microfiction Prize, Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize, and The Poetry by the Sea Conference's Sonnet Crown Contest. The recipient of poetry fellowships from Stanford University and The Sewanee Writers' Conference, Miller teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy and lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire (where he surfs all winter long).
Website: http://mattwmiller.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattwmiller89
Winning Entry: Augumtoocooke
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2018, Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid
