Yetzirah Book Club: February 7: Brenda Miller
February 7, 2027 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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You can order Brenda’s book here, with a percentage of every purchase going to support Yetzirah.
Please join us on Zoom for a lively conversation with Brenda Miller about her new hybrid collection, Love You, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems, moderated by Yetzirah Book Club host Rick Chess.
Robin Hemley, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project, says about Love You, Bye, “Approach this book not as your typical collection of essays and poems, but as a jar of bright beads, cohesively combined yet individually shimmering as they catch the tender reflected light of their subjects: Miller’s aging parents foremost, as well as Miller’s own many stored selves from childhood to early old age. Long admired as an essayist of stunning invention and sensitivity, Miller had me nearly in tears from the outset and wouldn’t let me catch my shaky breath until the very last.”
Love You, Bye is just out from Skinner House Books (April 2026). Brenda Miller is the author of six additional essay collections, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form, and An Earlier Life, winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored, with Holly J. Hughes, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, and, with Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition. She coined the term “Hermit Crab Essay.” Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com.
Brenda Miller is the author of six essay collections, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form, Listening Against the Stone, and An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction and co-wrote, with Holly J. Hughes, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. She is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.
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