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Miller Oberman

Miller Oberman PhD MA, MFA

Poetry Concentration Faculty

Education

Ph.D. English, University of Connecticut, 2017
M.A. English, University of Connecticut, 2013
M.F.A. Poetry, Georgia College, 2006

Biography

Miller Oberman is the author of two collections of poetry: Impossible Things and The Unstill Ones. He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hopkins Review, Poem-a-Day, Foglifter, London Review of Books, The Nation, Boston Review, Tin House, and Harvard Review. 

Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press, which publishes visual-literary collaborations, and teaches at and serves on the board of Brooklyn Poets. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York, and in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist committed to the liberation of all. He lives with his family in New York.

Publications:

Impossible Things, Duke University Press, 2024

The Unstill Ones, Princetown Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017