Maggie Millner
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Books

My Funeral
is forthcoming from FSG in 2027.

Couplets: A Love Story
was a “5 Under 35” honoree from the National Book Foundation, one of The Atlantic’s 10 best books of 2023, and a finalist for a few prizes, including the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. Couplets was translated into 6 languages and published in 7 countries.

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Events

8/12 – Stimulus Reading Series @ Rodeo Bar, Brooklyn, NY
9/15 – Books are Magic w/ Elizabeth Metzger, Brooklyn, NY

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Teaching

Maggie teaches poetry in the creative writing program at Yale, where she is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar, as well as through the Yale Prison Education Initiative.

She is also a Senior Editor at The Yale Review, where she mostly handles poetry.

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Writing

Some poems:
The Atlantic (on longing)
The Poetry Project (on privacy)
AFM (on onanism)
The Paris Review (on bondage)
The New Yorker (on grief)
The Nation (on transformation)

Some critical prose:
n + 1 (on Ben Lerner and writing about writing)
The Yale Review (on Mary Oliver and shame)
Granta (on linebreaks)
The Yale Review (on Sara Teasdale)

Some interviews:
The Paris Review
Interview Mag
Vogue
McSweeney's
Document
The Creative Independent
The Rumpus

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Contact

For publicity, Sarah Haeckel at Picador / FSG
For events, Leslie Shipman at The Shipman Agency
For the rest, Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit

Maggie Millner leaning out of a car window

pic by Sarah Wagner Miller <3