Sandra Doller (formerly Miller) (born 1974 Washington, DC) is an American poet and writer.
Life
She attended Amherst College, University of Washington, and University of Chicago.
She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the two year Iowa Arts Fellowship.
Doller has taught at Hollins University, Cornell College, University of Iowa and in 2007, was Distinguished Visiting Writer at Boise State University. She is currently Associate Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.
In 2003, Sandra Doller founded the international inter-arts journal and press: 1913 a journal of forms and in 2006 began editing and publishing books on 1913 Press . She still serves as editrice/editor-in-chief of 1913, which publishes diverse contemporary writing alongside early modernist experiments. 1913 Press authors include: John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse, Shin Yu Pai, Biswamit Dwibedy, Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker, Diane Wald, Karena Youtz, Jane Lewty, Scott McFarland, Monica Mody, Ronaldo Wilson, Lily Hoang, and Andy Fitch & Jon Cotner. Each year, 1913 Press publishes an anthology of inter-translation, titled READ, co-edited by Sarah Riggs & Cole Swensen. In 2019, 1913 Press ran book a contest advertising Shane McCrae as judge. The press never announced a winner, contacted contestants or returned the entry fee for the award.
She lives in San Diego with her partner and collaborator, the poet and writer Ben Doller (formerly Doyle). In 2007, the two merged their last names: Doyle + Miller = Doller.
Awards and fellowships
2001-2003: Iowa Arts Fellowship
2004: Paul Engle-James Michener Fellowship
2005: Runner-up for Sawtooth Prize from Ahsahta Press
2012: Winner of the Anomalous Press Translation Prize
Works
from Memory of the Prose Machine (Drunken Boat) from Leave Your Body Behind (Eleven Eleven)
Books
Oriflamme Ahsahta Press 2005
Chora Ahsahta Press 2010
Man Years Subito Press 2011
Memory of the Prose Machine CutBank 2013
Sonneteers Editions Eclipse 2014
Leave Your Body Behind Les Figues 2014
Anthologies
References
1974 births
Living people
Poets from Washington, D.C. California State University San Marcos faculty Amherst College alumni University of Washington alumni University of Chicago alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni American women poets 21st-century American poets Hollins University faculty Cornell College faculty University of Iowa faculty Boise State University faculty 21st-century American women writers American women academics