• Miles Waggener

    Email: mwaggener@unomaha.edu

    Linday Trapnell

    Biography

    Miles Waggener is the author of two poetry collections: Phoenix Suites (The Word Works, 2003), winner of the Washington Prize; and Sky Harbor (Pinyon Publishing, 2011); as well as a chapbook Portents Aside (Two Dogs Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including New Poets of the American West; Verse Daily; Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets' University and College Prizes; Antioch Review; Cutbank; Green Mountains Review; Crazyhorse; Seneca Review; and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has won individual artist fellowships from The Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council. Since 2006, he has been a faculty member of UNO's Writer's Workshop. He lives in Omaha with fellow writer Megan Gannon, and their son Manny.

    Links

    A review of Waggener's poetry collection, Sky Harbor, from NPR affiliate KNAU

    A review of Sky Harbor from Hayden's Ferry Review

    A link to the Nebraska Arts Council featuring Waggener's poetry

    A featured poem, "Key" on Verse Daily

    Waggener's poem featured as part of the Phoenix 7th Avenue Streetscapes Series

    Books

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