Joseph Millar is an American

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. He was raised in

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and after an adult life spent mostly in the

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and the

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, he divides his time between

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and

Richmond, CA Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 3, 1905, and has a city council.BA degree from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

in 1967 and an MA degree from

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in 1970. He has worked as a telephone installation foreman and commercial fisherman and in 1997 gave up this blue collar life to try his hand at teaching. He has poems about fatherhood, labor, relationships and the life of the American man in the 20th Century. His work has appeared in many magazines and journals, including ''

The Alaska Quarterly Review ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' is a biannual literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage and continued unaffiliated in 2020.July 1, 2020 University of Alaska Anchorage ended its finan ...

'', "DoubleTake," ''

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'', ''Poetry International'', and ''

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, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, New Letters
Raleigh Review
and Shenandoah''. He has taught at

Mount Hood Community College Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) is a public community college in Gresham, Oregon, United States, named after Mount Hood. Opened in 1966, MHCC enrolls around 30,000 students each year and offers classes at the main campus in Gresham, as well as ...

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and a variety of graduate and doctor ...

. He now teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at

Pacific University Pacific University is a private university in Forest Grove, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1849 as the Tualatin Academy, the original Forest Grove campus is west of Portland. Affiliated with the United Church of Christ, the school mainta ...

and the

Esalen Institute The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American Retreat (spiritual), retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanism, humanistic alternative education. The institute played a ke ...

. He is married to poet

Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) is an American Poet, American poet. Biography Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in English from Mills College in ...

; they divide their time between

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and

Richmond, CA Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 3, 1905, and has a city council.Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...

Works

* ''Overtime: Poems'', Eastern Washington University Press, 2001, , a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, *''Fortune'', Eastern Washington University Press, 2007, , *''Blue Rust,'' Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012, . * ''Kingdom'', Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017, ;chapbooks *"Slow Dancer", Cherry Valley Editions, 1992, *"Nightbound", Idaho Review Press, 2009 *"Bestiary," from Red Dragonfly Press, 2010.

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Pacific University MFA FacultyJOSEPH MILLAR
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