Areas I Teach
Joseph Millar’s collections are Kingdom; Overtime, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Fortune, and Blue Rust (all available from Carnegie-Mellon), and Dark Harvest: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2020. His latest collection, Shine, was published in 2024. Millar grew up in Pennsylvania and attended the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars before spending 30 years in the San Francisco Bay area working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His work—stark, clean, unsparing—records the narrative of a life fully lived among fathers, sons, brothers, daughters, weddings, and divorce. His work has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in such magazines as DoubleTake, New Letters, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares.