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ALYCE MILLER
Alyce Miller, (almiller@indiana.edu) who came to Bloomington by way of San Francisco, is the author of three books of fiction and a forthcoming memoir. Her first book, The Nature of Longing , won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and was republished in paperback by W.W. Norton in 1995, and listed as a New and Noteworthy Paperback by both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Her collection of stories, Water, won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction, Sarabande Books, 2007. Her novel, Stopping for Green Lights, was published in 1999 by Anchor Doubleday. She is currently at work on a memoir, Home Repair.
She has published more than a hundred and fifty short stories, poems, and essays in magazines that include The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, L.A. Times Summer Fiction Issue, Witness, New England Review, Glimmer Train, Story, Hotel Amerika, The Sun, Story Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review, Seneca Review, Legal Studies Forum, and Many Mountains Moving.
Her fiction has been awarded the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction and the Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction from Michigan Quarterly Review; and her fiction, essays, and poems have been selected for inclusion in a number of anthologies, including Sudden Stories, (Mammoth Books, 2003), And We The Creatures (Dream Horse Press, 2003), Crossing the Color Line (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), High Infidelity (Morrow, 1997),An Intricate Weave,(Milkweed Editions, 1997), New American Essays (New Letters Press, 2006), and The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading (Milkweed Editions, 1997).
She is a frequent book reviewer for The Chicago Tribune.
Miller is also a licensed attorney with a special interest in animal law and rights, and has written and presented on such various topics as pet trusts, the link between animal rights and childrenís rights, and issues involving voice, injury and third party standing. She appeared as a guest on Bob Lindenís ìGo Veganî radio show aired in Los Angeles and San Francisco to talk about the plight of wild animals kept in captivity. In Fall 2006 she received a New Perspectives grant to organize and chair an international, inter-disciplinary conference called Kindred Spirits, which was held here at I.U. In addition to teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses in creative writing and literature, she has taught several special topics courses on law and narrative, critical race theory, the literary and legal animal, and animals and ethics.
In 1999 she received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the Dean of Faculties at Indiana University, and in both 1998 and 1999 she was awarded a Teaching Excellence Recognition Award by the English Department and the I.U. Board of Trustees.
Home Page: http://mypage.iu.edu/~almiller/ |
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