Alyce Miller

Alyce Miller is an American writer who currently lives in the DC Metro area.[http://www.pw.org/content/alyce_miller Poets & Writers Directory of Writers > Alyce Miller] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026053851/http://www.pw.org/content/alyce_miller |date=October 26, 2016}}

Biography

She was born in Zürich, Switzerland and lived "most of her life"[http://mypage.iu.edu/~almiller/ Author Website > Bio] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604210515/http://mypage.iu.edu/~almiller/ |date=June 4, 2011}} in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a professor of English and taught in the graduate creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington for twenty years.

She received her B.A. from Ohio State University, an M.A. in English Literature from San Francisco State University; an M.A. in Film from San Francisco State University, 1987; an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1995; and a J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law in 2003.[http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Alyce-Miller.html Indiana University Bloomington > Department of English > Alyce Miller Bio] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091210070728/http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Alyce-Miller.html |date=December 10, 2009}} She is professor emerita from the English department at Indiana University Bloomington. She is also an attorney who works pro bono in family law and for animal rights.{{cite web |url=http://www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz/associates/miller.shtml |title=New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies: Professor Alyce Miller |publisher=University of Canterbury |accessdate=2008-11-18| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081014042323/http://www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz/associates/miller.shtml| archivedate= 14 October 2008 | url-status= live}} She believes that animals are not "just property," as the law defines them, but deserving of a different moral status that acknowledges their sentience, intelligence, emotionality, and capacity for happiness. In a recent interview, she stated that "writers have an obligation to know and pay attention to the world they live in."

Career

Her first collection of stories, The Nature of Longing, 1995, won the Flannery O'Connor Award. Her second story collection Water (Sarabande Books), 2008, won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. She is also the author of the novel Stopping for Green Lights, 2000, and more recently, the nonfiction book, Skunk from Reaktion Books, 2015, and a third collection of stories, Sweet Love, from China Grove Press, 2015.[http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Alyce-Miller.html Faculty Bio: Indiana University Bloomington> Department of English Faculty > Alyce Miller Bio] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091210070728/http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Alyce-Miller.html |date=December 10, 2009}}

About Water critics wrote, "...Miller’s superb latest collection...pulls together nine deftly wrought stories that chart the ebb and flow of several remarkably diverse lives...These psychologically acute stories are truly satisfying—imaginative, open-ended, and haunting" (O, The Oprah Magazine). ". . . Miller’s prose is vivid and multifaceted yet possesses an admirable restraint that enhances the emotional honesty----and risk..." (Booklist). Her other short story collection, The Nature of Longing, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.{{cite web |url=http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/series/miller.html |title=The Creative Writing Program at Emory University: Alyce Miller, fiction writer and poet |publisher=Emory University |accessdate=2008-11-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201102938/http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/series/miller.html |archivedate=2009-02-01}}{{cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/miller.html |title=Indiana University Faculty: Alyce Miller |publisher=Indiana University Bloomington|accessdate=2008-11-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614205435/http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/miller.html |archivedate=2008-06-14 |url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ugapress.org/FOC_winners.html |title=Flannery O'Connor Award Winners |publisher=The University of Georgia Press |accessdate=2008-11-18}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} A novel, Stopping for Green Lights, expanded one of the stories in The Nature of Longing and explored in more depth the complications of interracial friendships and racial categories during a tumultuous time. She also writes and publishes nonfiction (personal essays and articles) and poetry. Other awards include the Kenyon Review Award for Excellence in Literary Fiction, and the Lawrence Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review.

Bibliography

Short Story Collections

Sweet Love (China Grove Press}, 2015
Water (Sarabande Books, 2007)
The Nature of Longing (W.W. Norton, 1995)

Nonfiction

Skunk (Reaktion Books Animal Series, University of Chicago Press, 2015

Novels

Stopping for Green Lights (Anchor Doubleday, 1999)

References

External links

[http://www.alycemillerwriter.com/ Alyce Miller | Writer (author website)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080706152653/http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-1/miller.html Poetry and biography: University of Texas School of Law - Law in Popular Culture collection]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604210515/http://mypage.iu.edu/~almiller/ IU Page]
[http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/Alyce-Miller.html Faculty Bio: Indiana University Bloomington> Department of English Faculty > Alyce Miller Bio]
[http://www.sarabandebooks.org/?page_id=945 Author Page: Alyce Miller > Sarabande Books]
[http://www.sussitout.org/foundation/2009/9/17/alyce-miller.html Essay: SUSS: Another Literary Journal > September 17, 2009 > Bergman, Books and Boredom by Alyce Miller]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

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