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WAYNE MILLER has published five poetry collections: We the Jury (Milkweed, 2021), which is currently shortlisted for the Colorado Book Award; Post- (2016), which won the Colorado Book Award and the Rilke Prize; The City, Our City (2011), which was shortlisted for the Rilke Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Book of Props (2009); and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), which won the William Rockhill Nelson Award. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and Poetry; in 2013, he was and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has co-translated two books by Moikom ZeqoZodiac (Zephyr, 2015), which was shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation, and I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007)—and he has co-edited three books: Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed, 2016; w/ Kurowski and Prufer), Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (Unsung Masters, 2011; w/ Lento), and New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008; w/ Prufer). Wayne teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, co-curates the Unsung Masters Series, and edits Copper Nickel.

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