Kristen Renee Miller

This week we visit with Kristen Renee Miller in Louisville, Kentucky.

KRISTEN RENEE MILLER is the director and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books. An award-winning poet and translator, she is a 2023 NEA Fellow and the translator of two books from the French by Ilnu Nation poet Marie-Andrée Gill. She is the recipient of honors from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, AIGA, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and the American Literary Translators Association. Her work can be found widely, including in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, and Best New Poets. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

For more about Kristen: kristenreneemiller.com

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Kristen's Books on the Bed:

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d'Antin Manuscript by Luis d'Antin van Rooten

Busman's honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers

No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

Adverbs by Daniel Handler

Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Matt's Gifts for Kristen:

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang

Daughters of Chaos by Jen Fawkes

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford