An American poet, Joseph Millar grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Johns Hopkins University before spending some three decades in the San Francisco Bay Area working in commercial fishing, telephone installation, and other trades. His collections include Overtime (Eastern Washington University Press, 2001), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Fortune (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007); Blue Rust (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012); and Dark Harvest: New and Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University.
