WAYNE MILLER is the author of two collection of poems, Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), which received the 2007 William Rockhill Nelson Award, and The Book of Props (Milkweed, 2009; forthcoming). He is also translator of Moikom Zeqo's I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2007) and editor, with Kevin Prufer, of New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). The recipient of the Lucille Medwick Award (in 2004, 2005 and 2007), the George Bogin Award and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, as well as a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry and the Poetry Foundation, Miller lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he co-edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.