Season 2, episode 12: Borderline Fortune
“I was actually saying, ‘I don't know if I want to do this anymore. It's too painful.’”
— Teresa K. Miller
Success is great. Except when it isn't.
Teresa K. Miller has known success and rejection, highs and lows, both in writing and in life. In an articulate and honest conversation, she talks about what poetry can teach us, and why success and awards aren't the main thing.
Show notes:
Teresa K. Miller won the 2020 National Poetry Series with Borderline Fortune (Penguin, October 2021), having previously placed as a finalist with two other manuscripts. A graduate of Barnard College and the Mills College MFA program, she is the author of sped (Sidebrow) and Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky) as well as co-editor of Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building (Food First Books). Her poems and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, AlterNet, Entropy, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Originally from Seattle, she tends a mini orchard near Portland, Oregon.
You can find links to Teresa’s work at teresakmiller.net/bio. Pre-orders of Borderline Fortune will be available in mid-2021, and she encourages you to consider placing your order through Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company. In the meantime, her first book, sped, is available directly from Sidebrow or through Small Press Distribution.
