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Greg Miller
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Kentucky, United States
OccupationPoet, academic
GenrePoetry, literary criticism

David Gregory Miller (born 1957) is an American poet and academic. He has written four books of poetry. He is professor Emeritus of English at Millsaps College in Mississippi. Miller's poems have published in several literary magazines.[1]

Biography

Miller was born in Kentucky. He has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Yaddo and MacDowell Colonies in the United States, and at the Camargo Foundation and the CAMAC Centre d’Art in France. Miller was named Mississippi Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Miller was the Janice C. Trimble Professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi where he served as chair of the English Department and President of the Faculty Council.

Miller received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and his B.A. in French Literature and Political Science from Vanderbilt University. Miller served as chair of the Sudanese Ministry Committee of the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Mississippi, where he edited and published, with the help of his students, a pamphlet of personal stories by Sudanese refugees entitled The Long Journey: Sudanese Refugees in Mississippi Tell Their Stories.

Works

Poetry

Literary criticism

Works on line

References

  1. ^ Miller, Greg (14 March 1998). Iron Wheel. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226527987. Retrieved 2012-07-04.