Academic History
Ph.D., University of Houston
M.F.A., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Missouri
B.A., Stephens College
At St. Thomas since 1991
Expertise/Specialties
Contemporary American Poetry
Creative Writing
Book Publications
The Resurrection Trade, Graywolf Press, 2007
Eat Quite Everything You See, Graywolf Press, 2002
Yesterday Had a Man In It, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998.
Ungodliness, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994.
Staying Up for Love, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990.
No River, a chapbook of poems selected by William Stafford for the 1987 Stanley Hanks Chapbook Award, St. Louis Poetry Center.
Hanging on the Sunburned Arm of Some Homeboy, a chapbook of poems co-written with Matthew Graham, from Domino Impressions Press, Iowa City, 1982.
A complete listing of Leslie Adrienne Miller's published poems can be found on her Web site, located at www.leslieadriennemillerpoet.com
Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
The Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner Magazine
Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, judged by Alice Fulton
Loft Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Grant
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Assistance Fellowships
Nebraska Review Poetry Award judged by Pamela Stewart
Arts International Travel Grant, Indonesia, United States International Education Program
Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry
The Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner Magazine
National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
Billee Murray Denny Poetry Award
Stanley Young Fellowship in Poetry, Breadloaf Writers' Conference
Pen Southwest Discovery Award, judged by Phil Levine
Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from Southern California Anthology judged by William Matthews
Pushcart Prize
Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship, sponsored by Quarterly West, judged by Marvin Bell
Stanley Hanks Poetry Chapbook Award, St. Louis Poetry Center, selected by William Stafford
Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship, judged by Stephen Dunn
Stephens College Excellence in Teaching Award, selected by the faculty of Stephens College
President's Award from Ohio Journal, judged by David Citino
Artists' Residencies
Anderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies, Artist?s Residency
Le Chateau de Lavigny, Maison d'ecrivains, Foundation Ledig-Rowoholt,
Lavigny, Switzerland, Artist's Residency
Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain, Artist's Residency
Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat Fellowship, Scotland, Artist's Residency
N.A.L.L. Artists Colony, Vence, France, Artist's Residency
Goethe-Institut Cultural Exchange Fellowship in Berlin, Germany in cooperation with Chicago's Guild Complex, TriQuarterly Magazine, the Berlin Senate and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
