Amy Miller's writing has appeared in Nimrod, Willow Springs, ZYZZYVA, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fine Gardening, and The Poet's Market. She won the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition, judged by Tony Hoagland, as well as Cultural Weekly's Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, the Kay Snow Award for fiction, and the Earl Weaver Baseball Writing Prize from Cobalt. She lives in Oregon and blogs at writers-island.blogspot.com.