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Carly Joy Miller

Birth Year
b. 1988
Current City
New York, New York, USA
Birth City
Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry
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Biography

Carly Joy Miller is the author of Ceremonial (Orison Books, 2018), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2017 Orison Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Like a Beast (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poet’s Poem a Day, Gulf Coast, West Branch, and elsewhere. A digital content writer and editor, Carly also teaches in The Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.

Published Works

Ceremonial (Orison Books, 2018)
Like a Beast (Anhinga Press, 2017)

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Subject Matter

Childhood, Cultural Identity, Family, Grief & Elegy, Intergenerational Trauma, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Mythology, Sex, Torah, Trauma, Whiteness, Feminism.