Currently a Visiting Lecturer in English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Matt W. Miller is the author of Tender the River, winner of the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. Other books include The Wounded for the Water, Club Icarus,winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and Cameo Diner. He was a winner of Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Prize, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, Narratively Magazine’s Memoir Prize, and the Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. A former Walter E Dakin Fellow and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he lives in coastal New Hampshire with his family.
