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Brenda Miller is the author of Listening Against the Stone: Selected Essays (Skinner House Books 2011), Blessing of the Animals (Eastern Washington University Press 2009), Season of the Body (Sarabande Books 2002) and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill 2003).

Her work has received six Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review.

Brenda's Blessing of the Animals collection includes two Pushcart Prize winning essays (“Blessing of the Animals” and “Raging Waters”). "Table of Figures"was named a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays, 2009 and selected for inclusion in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3, by W.W. Norton.

She is a Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.

Brenda lives in Bellingham, WA, with her dog Abbe and her cat Madrona, both of whom are acting as muses for her next book.

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