Jennifer Stewart Miller was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Vermont and California. She holds an MFA from Bennington College, a JD from Columbia University, and a BA from Michigan State University. Her book Thief won the 2020 Grayson Books Poetry Prize. Miller is also the author of A Fox Appears: A Biography of a Boy in Haiku (2015) and a chapbook, The Strangers Burial Ground (Seven Kitchens Press 2020). Her poems have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Poet Lore, RHINO, Sugar House Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.