Born in New York City, Jane Miller is the author of more than ten collections, including Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1996), Wherever You Lay Your Head (Copper Canyon, 1999), A Palace of Pearls (Copper Canyon, 2005), and Thunderbird (Copper Canyon, 2013). She taught for many years in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and directed it from 1999 to 2003. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, along with a Western States Book Award and a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Award.
