Alyce Miller
Alyce Miller is an award-winning American writer who currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
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[edit] Biography
She was born in Zurich, Switzerland and lived "most of her life"[1] in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, she lives in Bloomington, Indiana.[2]
She received her B.A. from Ohio State University,[3] 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[disambiguation needed 
] in 2003.[4] She teaches in the English department at Indiana University. She is also an attorney who works pro bono in family law and for animal rights.[5][6] 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."
[edit] Career
She has published more than 200 stories, poems, articles, and essays in literary journals and magazines. Her most recent story collection Water (Sarabande Books), won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. She is also author of the novel Stopping for Green Lights.[7]
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.[8][5][9] 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.
[edit] Bibliography
Short Story Collections
- Water (Sarabande Books, 2007)
- The Nature of Longing (W.W. Norton, 1995)
Novels
- Stopping for Green Lights (Anchor Doubleday, 1999)
[edit] References
- ^ Author Website > Bio
- ^ Poets & Writers Directory of Writers > Alyce Miller
- ^ Author Website > Bio
- ^ Indiana University Bloomington > Department of English > Alyce Miller Bio
- ^ a b "The Creative Writing Program at Emory University: ALYCE MILLER, fiction writer and poet". Emory University. http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/series/miller.html. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ "New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies: Professor Alyce Miller". University of Canterbury. http://www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz/associates/miller.shtml. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ Faculty Bio: Indiana University > Department of English Faculty > Alyce Miller Bio
- ^ "Indiana University Faculty: Alyce Miller". Indiana University. Archived from the original on 2008-06-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20080614205435/http://www.indiana.edu/~mfawrite/miller.html. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ "Flannery O'Connor Award Winners". The University of Georgia Press. http://www.ugapress.org/FOC_winners.html. Retrieved 2008-11-18.[dead link]
[edit] External links
- Poetry and biography: University of Texas School of Law - Law in Popular Culture collection
- Author Website
- Faculty Bio: Indiana University Bloomington> Department of English Faculty > Alyce Miller Bio
- Author Page: Alyce Miller > Sarabande Books
- Essay: SUSS: Another Literary Journal > September 17, 2009 > Bergman, Books and Boredom by Alyce Miller
- American women writers
- Indiana University faculty
- San Francisco State University alumni
- Indiana University alumni
- Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni
- Ohio State University alumni
- Writers from Indiana
- People from San Francisco, California
- Writers from California
- American novelists
- American academics of English literature
- American academics
- Living people
- People from Bloomington, Indiana
