Amy Miller is a writer and artist living in southern Oregon whose visual art includes watercolors, printmaking, photography, and paper art. Her photography juxtaposes natural and manmade elements, and she is currently working on a series depicting debris found in Oregon waterways. In 2002 she invented Poetry Boxes—original poems printed on origami-based cubes that have had showings in numerous galleries.

She is the author of the poetry collection Astronauts, a chronicle of two sisters and addiction that won the Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal and was a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award; and The Trouble with New England Girls, winner of the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf. Her writing has appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, North American Review, Terrain, and ZYZZYVA.

She lives in southern Oregon, where she works as a communications editor for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and serves as poetry editor for the NPR listeners’ guide Jefferson Journal. Samples of her work can be found at https://writers-island.blogspot.com/. Follow Amy on Facebook, Instagram, and BlueSky.