E. Ethelbert Miller

E. Ethelbert Miller, award-winning poet, editor, and educator, was born in New York City in 1950 and received his B.A. from Howard University in 1972. He has authored several poetry collections, including Whispers, Secrets, and Promises (1998) and First Light: New and Selected Poems (1994). A leading editor of African-American literature, he edited the anthology In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African American Poetry, which received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award (1994) and was a Book of the Month Club selection. His memoir, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (2000), was selected for Washington, D.C.’s one book, one city program. In Washington, D.C., he was awarded the Mayor’s Art Award for Literature (1982), the Public Humanities Award (1988), and the Columbia Merit Award (1993). His other awards include the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize (1995) and the Stephen Henderson Poetry Award (1997). He is the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, a position he has held since 1974. He also teaches poetry in the Bennington Writing Seminars for Bennington College. He is editor of Poet Lore and is a contributor to National Public Radio. Miller resides in Washington, D.C., with his family.

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