The Daughters of Elderly Women

Brenda Miller is the author of five essay collections, including An Earlier Life (Ovenbird Books, 2016), which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. She also coauthored Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction (third edition published 2019) and The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. Her collaborative collection with Julie Marie Wade, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, was selected by Hanif Abduraqib as the winner of the Cleveland State University Press Nonfiction Book Award in 2019, and the book is forthcoming from CSU Press in 2021. Brenda’s collection of writing on writing, A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form, is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press in 2021. Brenda’s work has received six Pushcart Prizes. She is a professor of English at Western Washington University and associate faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com.