Since the publication of her first poem in a nationally recognized journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, in 1977, Dr. Miller has published six full length collections of poetry, Y, The Resurrection Trade, and Eat Quite Everything You See with Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man In It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up for Love with Carnegie Mellon University Press.
The journey has also included fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships and grants for travel in Germany, France, Scotland, Switzerland and Indonesia, as well as opportunities to teach and read at writers' festivals, university writing programs, medical schools, the Library of Congress, and the National Institutes for Health.