E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. He was born in 1950 and grew up in New York City. A graduate of Howard University, he was one of the first students at that institution to major in African American Studies. He is the former board chair of IPS and the former editor of Poet Lore.
Miller served as Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Emory and Henry College. A Fulbright Senior Specialist Program Fellow in 2004 and 2012, Miller is the founder and former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. The author of several collections of poetry, he has also written a set of memoirs, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (2000) and The 5th Inning (2009),
Recently he collaborated with Miho Kinnas on a book of poetry, We Eclipse into The Other Side (Pinyon Publishing, 2023).
Miller is the host and producer of “The Scholars,”which airs on UDC-TV. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Chinese, Farsi, Norwegian, Tamil and Arabic. A recent core faculty member with the Bennington Writing Seminars, Miller has taught at UNLV, American University, George Mason University, and Emory and Henry College. Inducted into the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame for 2015, Miller is also a regular on National Public Radio.
Miller also hosts “On the Margin,” which examines our literary culture. Available on WPFW radio and podcast.
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