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News: Brenda's new collection includes two Pushcart Prize winning essays (“Blessing of the Animals” and “Raging Waters”). Her essay, "Table of Figures," was selected for inclusion in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3, to be published in 2009 by W.W. Norton.
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Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002) and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003).
Her newest collection of essays, Blessing of the Animals, was released by Eastern Washington University Press on February 1, 2009.
Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review.
She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.
Brenda lives in Bellingham, WA, with her dog Abbe and her cat Madrona, both of whom are acting as muses for her next book.
If you are interested in having Brenda visit your book group or writing group, please use the Contact link for more information.