Brenda Miller is the author of six essay collections, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form, and An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. Her first hybrid collection, Love You, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems, was just released by Skinner House Books in 2026. Her book of collaborative essays with Julie Marie Wade, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for Creative Nonfiction. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill, and co-wrote, with Holly J. Hughes, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. She also received the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award for her poetry collection, The Daughters of Elderly Women. She is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.