Raised in northern California and western Massachusetts, Amy Miller worked as a ranch hand, electronic assembler, photographer's assistant, bookkeeper, and ad salesperson before settling into a career as an editor and print project manager. Her writing has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, Nimrod, Rattle, Willow Springs, ZYZZYVA, Fine Gardening, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Writer's Journal, and The Poet's Market, and anthologies such as What the River Brings: Oregon River Poems and Clash by Night: A London Calling Anthology. She won the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition, judged by Tony Hoagland, the Whiskey Island Poetry Prize, the Poetry Storehouse videopoem prize, the Kay Snow Award, and the Cloudbank Award, and has been a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize, the 49th Parallel Award, and A Prairie Home Companion's Sonnet Contest. Other chapbooks include Rough House (White Knuckle Press, 2016), In the Hand, Tea Before Questions, and The Mechanics of the Rescue. She lives in Ashland, Oregon, where she is the poetry editor of the NPR listening guide Jefferson Monthly, works as the publications project manager for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and blogs at writers-island.blogspot.com.