Jane Miller is the author of Wherever You Lay Your Head; Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected Poems; The Greater Leisures, a National Poetry Series Selection; and August Zero, winner of the Western States Book Award. Recent work includes Midnights and A Palace of Pearls, which received the 2006 Audre Lorde Prize in Poetry. A recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award for Poetry, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, Miller is professor of English at the University of Arizona and currently lives in Berkeley.